I’m thinking of making a short comic about what happens when someone thinks they can buy happiness, but it turns out they so obviously can’t. I always enjoyed that great scene in The Office, when the thick bros of the office eagerly fawn over the resident power-douche, saying “He could have any woman he wants”, but in reality it turns out … he can’t.
So yes, I just need a title for the comic. I’m thinking ‘Trapped Child Trillionaire’, or ‘Dissatisfied Business Trillionaire’ or something similar. Suggestions welcome.
Every page will begin with our lifeless Golem bragging about the things he’s going to achieve in order to obtain global admiration, eg:
- putting people on Mars by 2025
- saving those trapped in a Thai cave
- ending world hunger
- saving Twitter from bots
- making Gov’t more efficient using doge
- removing life-threatening tools from X
… then midway down each page he reveals he won’t because he’s full of sh1t, and doesn’t actually do anything other than scrape Government subsidies and desperately try to get pedophiles to like him …
… and then each page ends with a footer which is simply a flashback to his childhood where a parent denies him a hug/time/attention. Over and over again. Page after page of (1) promises to do better –> (2) failures to do better –> (3) flashbacks to tragic parenting.
Great idea, huh?! And due to my fame as a comic producer, it’d be read pretty globally, and almost certainly [eventually] by the sad boy himself. Only question is, how do we make it sexy and not too depressing? An erotic comic people will actually share … hmm. That’s the real question. I can’t very well have our ‘protagonist’ be actually sexy, because he looks like a block of halloumi. Maybe he can have sexy neighbours, constantly doing it and demonstrating what functioning relationships actually look like, while he fumbles his way through tragedy after tragedy, Groundhog-style.
Anyway, it’s just an idea. Maybe a bit of a sad subject, not exactly something anyone’d want to read. Unless I can figure out a twist to make it entertaining in some way.
Maybe boobs? They’ve proved popular in the past …
[PS. As we all know, Social Media exclusively functions by turning engagement into advertising money, which pays the owner. So please … if you’re still using Twitter … it might be time to stop. In fact that time might have been five years ago, frankly …]
