#it wouldnt be so funny if it wasnt supposed to be an advert

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I can't stop thinking about that official obey m. tktok where it just pans over a still image of Dia with the slow building beat of his character song in the bg. It's so unbearably funny to me. (X)

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Just found a weird comic called Plutona in the library

Ultimate verdict: big wasted potential!

Its got the really interesting premise of a bunch of kids finding the dead body of a superhero in the woods, and the dark story of them dealing with such a trauma, and the each chapter ending with a retro styled superhero mini-chapter slowly unwravelling how the hero died.

But then the execution is just.. Bad.

Like they dont actually do anything interesting with it? The answer to "what would the kids do in this situation" is just.. Sidestepped entirely. They go "oh i dont know" and "lets meet here tomorrow to make a decision whether we should tell somebody" but then it just ends before that day actually comes. And they raise the interesting scenario that theyd have to keep it secret because she's the Superman of the setting, i.e a hero so overwhelmingly powerful that her absence would be a big opportunity for bigger villains to all flock to the city. But again, just doesnt happen, everything is resolved on day 2 and them even bringing the idea up doesnt make a whole lot of sense. All youre doing is making us wanna see that story, yo?

Oh also THEY BACKPEDALLED ON THE WHOLE PREMISE

Turns out Plutona wasnt even dead, she was just hit by some sort of magical stasis beam that made her sleep for two days.

And its weird cos the story actually goes EVEN DARKER than that, so its not like they were trying to censor it or anything? I guess they just thought that the plot they were doing was so much better than the plot they advertized on the front cover.

Oh and that plot they did? Yeah just 'the antisocial nerd did it, he really is creepy and evil and you should hate him.' Wow..what a..surprise...

Like there's a whole Traditional Cartoon Kid Group of protagonists and one of them is the shy effeminate superhero nerd who's always getting bullied and OH WHAT A TWIST you thought he was gonna be the protagonist but in fact he's the villain and his bully was completely right i guess. He goes loopy and attacks the other kids because "she's mine", wanting to dissect the corpse witj a pocket knife like a total creeper and like.. Drink her blood to get her superpowers n shit. And he keeps getting this other kid's younger brother to come out with him to the Creepy Alley and like..teaches him to self harm under the guise of 'i'll help you get superpowers'. And then when everyone finds out he's been keeping the corpse and being all gross with it, he attacks them with the knife and ends up accidentally stabbing himself in the gut. And then its all intense with everyone running from him in the woods until he slowly bleeds out and just falls down dead where they first found the superhero. Cos it turns out she wasnt dead at all and she just went home.

THE END.

Yeh it just ends on this 12 year old going full serial killer on his friends, accidentally killing himself, and bleeding out graphically onscreen with his eyes all wide and bloodshot. And it was all for nothing cos the entire premise of the comic was false. And then we just get one more page showing that the kids hid the body in the forest and never told anyone for the rest of their lives and were traumatized forever. The End.

Like..what was the fuckin point then...? The entire point of this comic was to show some serial killer kid kill himself?

Also its just weird that they build up the characters so much when it all goes nowhere. So many subplots with no resolution! Like we neverfind out why the one kid wants to steal her friend's cool punk jacket, or get any resolution on them drifting apart as friends. We never know why on earth she suddenly wants to hang out with the jackass bully, and the friend never gets to learn that she fuckin AGREES WITH HIM on all the bullying shit he says about her behind her back! Seriously man this comic really shits on the cool metalhead chubby girl, i feel like we were meant to find it comical that she wanted to wear a cool jacket, somehow?? That she friggin made herself and then it gets stolen by the person she trusted the most, who starts smooching her bully! Who was apparantly goddamn right about serial killer kid so Bullying Is Good I Suppose.

*shrug*

Its hard to get any moral out of this or even any reason for it to exist, honestly. I guess the authors just wanted us to feel Real Fuckin Sad And Hopeless For No Reason At All

Shame cos the art style is really damn coop tho! I especially love the design for the metalhead chubby girl. I'd reccommend googling it just to see a few pages and feel inspired i guess! Wouldnt reccommend reading it tho.

Oh but a funny thing is that there's a review on the cover thats all like "a magical tale about childhood and coming of age" directly below a picture of a bunch of kids staring at a dead body. TRULY INSPIRATIONAL CHILDHOOD WHIMSY