new comics day: li'l depressed boy

Yesterday was new comics day. Every Wednesday is new comics day, but I haven't been buying individual issues for a few months because of monetary concerns. That being said, there was one comic that I couldn't miss yesterday: Li'l Depressed Boy (LDB).

Now before you go off referring me to emotional counseling or something (which many have when I have received packages from the Li'l Depressed Boy website or when I read the comics in public), you need to know that this is one of the most poetic expressions of a normal life, in a normal town, involving realistic circumstances. It's a perfect expression of the journey of life and the little joys we can find to brighten what could otherwise be a pretty bleak existence.

Life often doesn't go as we plan. LDB often gets what many would call the short end of the stick. His life often sucks, but he finds solace and joy in friends, comics, and his various adventures. The narrative of his life shows us that even though life is hard, we can find things around us that will help us through.

The creators of this comic had taken a break (one and a half years to be exact) so that they could get ahead on material and release more content. Now they are back and releasing more of this wonderful comic. I was excited to get a new chapter of the story this week and was elated to find that they had published a letter I had sent to them about my story with the comic. It was one of the best new comic days ever.