The Curse (free version) (Patreon)

So! First of all, the dude who inadvertently freed Esther from her curse is actually a dude by the name of Drippsopp who paid for the tier which entitled one to make a cameo on Eternal Beach City! Hope Drip’s okay with his cartoon surrogate possibly incurring some brain damage. But look, Esther is very much not a doctor. So, I wouldn’t take her assessment too seriously.

Second of all, there’s a bunch of stuff that went into this particular strip with a focus on trying to facilitate a methodology for certain steps that’ll make the process a little faster without the final product looking any different. Unfortunately, it turns out figuring out how to save time takes a lot of extra time! Not only that, but explaining the process would be incredibly dry and potentially confusing, particularly since there’s nothing I can point to visually seeing as how the whole objective is that it looks the same! I don’t even actually know how much time it’s going to save, since it certainly didn’t save any time this time around.

So instead, I’d like to talk about curses in general. Why is that a thing that I feel like every culture has come up with independently? Is it just that enough people historically felt the experience of their lives unraveling with no rational explanation for it? Is it just a universally useful crutch for pre-civilization storytellers? Or is it that… it couldn’t be… are curses real?!

Honestly, I don’t think so. I don’t know about you, but when everything starts to fall apart, if I follow the thread for long enough, I can always find an origin point for my woes. And that point is me! Even if I’m rounded up and put into a camp for drawing lewd comics, isn’t it really my fault for not having drowned or something in my early childhood?