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Just a dumb little web comic about technology, society, and whatever other silly thing I happen to doodle. New comic every Wednesday.

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The Whale King 3 - He... Oh Dear

psvcomic.com/2026/01/21/

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A 4 panel grayscale comic featuring a king and one of his guards titled "The Whale King Part 3: He... Oh Dear". Panel 1. The king is in his throne room looking down at a phone in frustration. The guard is trying to talk to him looking concerned. Guard: Sir, the people are concerned about how much time you spend staring at that rectangle. King: Stupid prize box. I wanted a dragon not another dumb gopher! Panel 2. Guard: And nearly half the treasury has vanished along with some of the furniture! King: Hm... what's the least valuable thing I can trade for more gems? Panel 3. Cut to the king's perspective looking at the phone. They are in the gem shop on a tab that indicates he can trade a guard for 25 gems. Guard: Sir... Sir, can you hear me? King: I guess I don't need that many guards... Panel 4. The phone makes a KACHING! sound while showing a bunch of gems in a chest surrounded by sparkles and a big 25 above it. In the background the guard vanishes in a puff of smoke.
January 21, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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The Whale King 2 - He Can Afford It

psvcomic.com/2026/01/12/

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January 14, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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The Whale King 1 - He Can Handle It

psvcomic.com/2026/01/07/

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A 6 panel grayscale comic titled "The Whale King Part 1: He Can Handle It" featuring a king and a mage in some kind of internal space with brick walls. Panel 1. The king is approaching the mage in the background while the mage works on a magic sphere. King, cheery: Mage! Cease thy arcane ministrations. I require entertainment! Mage, angrily: I'm a cosmic being of unimaginable power. Not some court jester. Panel 2. Close up on the two. King, angrily: I am your KING and I say jest! Mage, slyly: Very well... Panel 3. Mage stands beside the king holding a smart phone. The king reaches for it wide eyed. Mage: The people of the future will call this a smart phone. I have filled it with games to provide nigh limitless fun. If you can resist their temptations. Panel 4. The king is glaring down at the smart phone in his hands. King, suspicious: Temptations? What manner of trap is this? Mage, cheerily: No trap your majesty. It may prey upon the weaknesses inherit in the common man... Panel 5. We see the phone from king's perspective. The screen has opened an app titled "Gummy Krunch Saga". His angry reflection is visible in on the screen. The mage is visible in the background. Mage, cheerily: But surely someone of your noble heritage has nothing to fear from my delightful little rectangle. King, angrily: Of course I don't! Panel 6. Close up on the king tapping the screen for the first time. It makes a cheery bing sound and the king looks at it wide eyed going "Oooooooo..." The panel is subtitled "To be continued..."
January 7, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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A Busy Evening

psvcomic.com/2025/12/31/

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A 4 panel grayscale comic featuring a man with long hair, a beard, and glasses (Programmer) sitting on a couch being talk to by a cat perched on the couch's arm. Panel 1. Cat: It's New Year's Eve. Shouldn't you be out celebrating with friends? Programmer: Why? Panel 2. Close up on Programmer. Programmer: 2025 was a horrific dumpster fire and 2026 is shaping up to be at least as bad. Neither are worthy of celebration. Panel 3. Close up on the cat and Programmer glaring at each other. Cat: Lies! You're just making excuses for failing to put any effort into changing your hermit lifestyle. Programmer: Hey. I don't see you out partying with your cat friends. Panel 4. Cat: Friends? Parties? Ha! We cats are above such trivial things. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go vomit in the corner and take a nap.
December 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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A Frosty Reception

psvcomic.com/2025/12/24/

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A 4 panel grayscale comic featuring a pair of kids and a snowman (Frosty) out in the snow. Panel 1. Frosty: You did it kids! You brought me back to life! Kid 1: Welcome back Frosty! Kid 2: Ready for another winter of fun? Panel 2. Frosty starts moving off frame. Kid 1: Frosty, where are you going? Panel 3. Close up on Frosty. Have you seen the weather report? Thanks to global warming I'll barely last a week if I stay here. I'm heading to Antarctica before it's too late! Panel 4. Frosty continues to run away with the kids visible in the background. Kid 2: But... what about winter fun? Frosty: Antarctica has penguins kid. PENGUINS!!!
December 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Married to the Sea

psvcomic.com/2025/12/17/

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A 4 panel grayscale comic featuring a sea captain. Panel 1. Close up on sea captain. Captain: They say a sailor's is a lonely life. But me, I'm married to the sea. Panel 2. Captain: Or it was until the relationship fell apart. She claimed I was cheating on her with a nearby village. But I mean, come on. A man can't spend his every waking moment on the water! Panel 3. Captain: I lost everything in the divorce. Panel 4. Cut to a wider shot showing a boat sinking into the ocean. Captain: Because it was all on the bloody boat when she sunk it!
December 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Endings

psvcomic.com/2025/12/10/

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A 6 panel grey scale comic. Panel 1. A man with long hair, a beard, and glasses (Programmer) is sitting at a desk looking sad. Programmer: Folks, a friend of mine passed away recently. And that has me thinking about the strangeness of our own connection. Panel 2. Close up on the man at the desk. Programmer: Without sharing too much, I have some health struggles. I hope to be here a long time and have no reason to believe I won't be. But things happen. Panel 3. We now see the desk surrounded by a man with messy hair (Jim) and a woman with glasses and a pony tail (Hannah) holding a key. A computer on the desk reads "403 Unauthorized". The panel is captioned: These comics are posted in 11 different locations. Right now I'm the only one with the keys to that kingdom. Panel 4. Close up on Hannah sitting at the computer squinting at the screen. The panel is captioned: And even if someone else had those keys they aren't all easy to update. Hannah: What the heck is Jekyll and what horrors did he weave from it? Panel 5. Cut back to Programmer at his desk. Programmer: If one day you notice that these channels suddenly went silent you might wonder... Did he burn out? Did he get bored? Did something happen to him? Panel 6. Cut to a close up on a phone screen showing an app called "FaceTokGram" which reads "404 Author Not Found". The panel is captioned: And you'll probably never know. An ending can be such a quiet thing.
December 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Zog See Future

psvcomic.com/2025/12/03/

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A 4 panel grayscale comic featuring three cavemen at the base of a mountain. Panel 1. One caveman is approaching the other two looking distressed. Zog: Og! Tog! Zog have terrible vision! Panel 2. Close up on Zog. Zog: People of future harness lightning. Use it make rocks think. Panel 3. Close up on Tog. Tog: Zog, rocks good. Make good tools. Surely thinking rocks better. Make better tools. Panel 4. Pull back to show all 3. Zog still looks distressed while the other two look skeptical. Zog: No. Is nightmare. Everyone enslaved by rectangles. Og: Og think Zog need drink less old berry juice.
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Forms of Magic

psvcomic.com/2025/11/26/

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A 5 panel grayscale comic featuring someone wearing a cloak with a hood covered in stars (Mage) and a couple of angry peasants in a tavern. Panel 1. The two angry peasants approach the mage at a tavern bar. Peasant 1: What 're you. Some kinda mage? Peasant 2: Yeah. Do some magic MAGE. Mage, bored: Ugh. Fine. Panel 2. The mage fans out a deck of cards. Peasant 1 remains angry while peasant 2 looks confused. Mage, cheerily: Pick a card. Any card. Peasant 2: What kinda magic is this? Panel 3. Peasant 2 is now holding a card. Mage, concentrating: Is your card a... three of clubs? Peasant 2: Nope. Queen of diamonds. Panel 4. The card has been placed on the card on the counter and the peasants, angry again, are closing in on the mage. Mage, annoyed: Dang! How did that guy with the top hat do that? Peasant 1: Maybe we hang him upside down. See if some magic falls out. Panel 5. A couple of glowing squirrels are sitting on the counter looking shocked and confused. Mage, bored: Fine. Poof. You're squirrels now. Have fun getting eaten by hawks or whatever.
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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He Can't Bear It

psvcomic.com/2025/11/19/

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A 4 panel black, white, and grey comic featuring a balding man in with a moustache and a suit (Boss) and a man with messy hair (Jim) in an office. Boss is behind a desk. Panel 1. Boss: Thank you for coming. I have news about your employment status with this company. Panel 2. Close up on Boss. Boss: These conversations are always awkward. So I've hired someone to "bear" the news for me. Panel 3. Close up on Jim looking surprised. There are series of thumping noises and a large bear can be seen looming behind him. Panel 4. Jim stands up and turns to the bear, which is wearing a fedora and smoking a cigarette. Jim, hopeful: Is it good news? Bear: No kid. No it ain't.
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The Wrong Kind of Pirate

psvcomic.com/2025/11/12/

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A 4 panel grey scale comic set in a park and featuring a man with messy hair (Jim), and a pirate captain and his first mate. Panel 1. The pirates and Jim are walking towards each other. Jim is carrying a soft drink. Jim: Wow! Are you guys real pirates? Panel 2. Close up on Jim and the Captain. Captain: Aye! We be scions o' that noble profession with freedom in our veins an' treasure in our hearts. Jim: That's so cool! Panel 3. The first mate cuts into the scene. Mate: Be not too excited. We be porch pirates. Jim looks at him with surprised while the captain glares at him. Panel 4. The pirates are fleeing. Jim's soft drink has been thrown at them. Jim from off panel: BOOOOO!!! Captain, angrily: Next time keep ye gob shut! Mate, sullenly: Aye sir.
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Blocked

psvcomic.com/2025/11/05/

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A 4 panel grey scale comic. Panel 1. A woman with glasses (Hannah) and a man with long hair are eating lunch in an office cafeteria. Her phone dings and she pulls it out to look at it. Hannah: Huh. I just got a new follower. Let's check them out. Panel 2. Close up on Hannah. Hannah: Never mind. This is definitely just a bot. Blocked! Panel 3. Elsewhere. Close up on a phone held in angular hands. The screen shows the app "FaceTokGram" and says "This user has blocked you." Panel 4. Cut out to see a sad robot looking at it's phone.
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Spooktober: Frog Prince

psvcomic.com/2025/10/29/

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A 4 panel black, white, and grey comic featuring a witch holding a frog over a bubbling cauldron. Panel 1. Witch: ...and one frog. Frog: Wait, wait, WAIT!!! Panel 2. Close up on the frog. Frog: I was cursed! I'm actually a handsome prince! Kiss me and I'll be human again. We can get married and live in my castle. Panel 3. Close up on witch and frog. Witch, sarcastic: Oh wow! I can't wait to marry someone I don't know and escape this life of cozy huts and books of arcane power. Panel 4. Frog, hopeful: Really! Witch, angry: NO!!! Now get in the pot!
October 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Spooktober: ZombAI

psvcomic.com/2025/10/22/

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A 6 panel grey scale comic. Panel 1. A man with long hair and glasses is sitting with his cat in a dark house with boarded up windows watching TV. TV: The zombie threat is contained. But can we profit from it? We go live to an interview with the founder of ZombAI. Panel 2. We cut to a reporter and a CEO standing in front of a chain link fence with a horde of zombies behind it. Reporter: Is it true that your company wants us to keep feeding people to the zombie horde? CEO: Only the old and infirm. Panel 3. Close up on the CEO. CEO: Here at ZombAI we believe that if we keep feeding the dead the brains of the living they'll eventually be able to perform menial tasks! Panel 4. CEO: Imagine the power of an undead workforce! Untiring. Uncomplaining. Unburdened by friends and family and that pesky need for oxygen. A crash sounds from off panel. Panel 5. Cut to a wider view of the CEO and reporter. The CEO has adopted a mocking pose. The reporter is stepping black looking shocked. A zombie is approaching the CEO from behind. CEO: Ooh look at me, I'm a human worker. I have rights and don't want to work 18 hour days breathing asbestos. Entitle wimps. Zombie: ...brains... Panel 6. Cut back to the man and cat watching TV. He looks shocked and the cat looks entertained. TV: AAH! HELP! Don't let it eat my brain! It's supposed to replace labor not management!
October 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Spooktober: Hunted

psvcomic.com/2025/10/15/

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A 4 panel black, white, and grey comic featuring an adventurer and a mummy. Panel 1. The adventurer is seen fleeing from a mummy, emerging from the darkness of a tomb. Overlay text reads: Ever since I opened the tomb, the mummy has pursued me. The mummy says: Your life is forfeit... Panel 2. The adventurer flees from bed as the mummy crashes through a window. Overlay text reads: Relentless. Implacable. Wherever I rest it finds me. The mummy says: Your life is forfeit... Panel 3. The adventurer looks up started from a book they're reading in a coffee shop. On the street outside, the mummy emerges from the crowd. Overlay text reads: But, for all that it haunts me, it's nice to know that somewhere out there there is someone... The mummy says: Your life is forfeit... Panel 4. The adventurer is riding a bicycle away from the mummy, looking cheerful. Overlay text reads: ...who cares that I'm still alive. The mummy says: Your life is forfeit... The adventurer responds: But not today my friend. Not today.
October 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Spooktober: All Shall Be Well

psvcomic.com/2025/10/08/

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A 6 panel black, white, and grey comic featuring a man with messy hair (Jim) and a woman with wavy hair (Jane) in some spooky woods with an old well. Panel 1. Jim: Oooh, look. A creepy old well. Jane: Where did that come from? Panel 2. Close up on Jim cupping his ear near the well. Indistinct dark whispers come from it. Jim: What's that? Your name's Timmy? Panel 3. Close up on startled Jim jumping back with Jane in the background. More dark whispers come from off panel. Jim: And you're trapped in the well!!! Jane: Are you doing a bit. Panel 4. Jim is determinedly climbing into the well while Jane looks concerned. Jim: Don't worry, I'm coming Jimmy!!! Jane: I don't think that's... Panel 5. Close up on Jane looking down the well with concern. Panel 6. Jane jumps back in surprise as the well gives a dark burp.
October 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Spooktober: Bells

psvcomic.com/2025/10/01/

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A 4 panel black, white, and grey comic featuring a man with messy hair (Jim). Panel 1. Jim is groggily waking up in bed. There is a ringing sound and the shadow of the grim reaper (Death) in the background. Jim: Ugh. What's that ringing? Panel 2. Close up on Death gazing down at Jim. The ringing continues. Death: Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Jim: AAAAAAAH!!! Panel 3. Cut in closer as Death glares down. Jim cowers under the covers. The ringing continues. Death: It tolls for thee. Panel 4. Cut back out. Jim is sitting up in bed holding his phone, looking amused. Death, smiling, leaves. Jim: Oh! It was just my phone. Death: My work here is done.
October 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The Cage You Choose

psvcomic.com/2025/09/24/

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A 5 panel black, white, and grey comic featuring a business man in a suite (Boss) and man with long hair, a beard, and glasses (Programmer). Panel 1. Programmer is sitting at his chair when Boss comes in from off panel. Boss: Hey. Soooo... you're fired. Programmer: What?! WHY? Panel 2. Close up on boss looking upset. Boss: The coffee machine recorded you disparaging the coffee and the manufacturer is threatening to cut off the entire floor if I don't. Panel 3. Close up on Programmer looking angry. Programmer: So MAKE THEM! Threats are cheap. Right now the only power they have is the power you're giving them. Bullies don't stop. You have to fight for every inch of ground or they'll take everything. Panel 4. Programmer gets up into Boss' face. Programmer: If the cage you choose is the one in your head no one will know you need help. Panel 5. Cut out to the two of them again. Boss: But... what about my double shot mocha lattes? Programmer: It's shitty coffee anyway you coward!
September 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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The Butler Did It

psvcomic.com/2025/09/17/

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A 6 panel black, white, and grey comic featuring a butler and a man with messy hair (Jim) dressed as a butler. Panel 1. Jim is walking behind the stoic butler looking chipper. Jim: Any tips for my first day as a butler? Butler: Other than comb your hair? Jim: Yea. Other than that. Panel 2. Close up on the butler as they arrive at a door. Butler: As a butler you will inevitably be accused of murder. This leaves you with only two options. Panel 3. The butler turns back to Jim. Butler: Always have an alibi. Or... Panel 4. Cut in close as the Butler gets in Jim's face. Butler: MAKE IT COUNT. Panel 5. Jim looks distressed as the butler turns and opens the door with a conspiratorial look on his face. Jim: Is that really all you can do? Butler: Well... there is a third option. This way please. Panel 6. Cut to the interior of the room. In the fore ground we see a rich woman has been stabbed with a knife. Jim and the butler stand in the doorway. Jim looks surprised while the butler calls out into the hallway. Butler: HELP! The new butler killed Ms. Opulady! Jim: But I didn't... Butler, interrupting: He's gone mad! Call the police while I restrain him!
September 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Sunset

psvcomic.com/2025/09/10/

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A 4 panel black, white, and grey comic. Panel 1. A couple is standing on the beach, holding hands, looking at a sunset. One of them says "This sunset is so beautiful, it could put Aphrodite to shame." Panel 2. Cut to Mount Olympus. Aphrodite glares down from the clouds. Hermes pops in from off frame. Hermes: Hey Aphrodite, did you here... Aphrodite, interrupting: YES! I HEARD!!! Panel 3. Close up on Aphrodite, looking pensive. Aphrodite: Stupid sun. It's beautiful. It's hot. Panel 4. Extreme close up on an angry Aphrodite. Aphrodite: IT MUST BE DESTROYED!!!
September 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Divine Intervention

psvcomic.com/2025/09/03/

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A 4 panel black, white, and grey comic featuring a man with long hair and glasses (Programmer). Panel 1. Programmer is glaring at a computer showing the blue screen of death. Programmer: Stupid machine! What ancient god have I angered that you should crash every 10 minutes?! Panel 2. Cut to a wider shot. The Greek god Hermes appears in a blaze of light proffering a scroll. Programmer reaches for it looking surprised. Hermes: Message for you. Panel 3. Close up on Programmer again, reading the scroll. Panel 4. Cut to Programmer's perspective. The scroll reads "Suck It Nerd!" It's signed "Zeus" with lightning bolts drawn beside the name.
September 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Panda's Box

psvcomic.com/2025/08/27/

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A 4 panel black, white, and grey comic. Panel 1. Zeus is looking angrily down from Mount Olympus. Zeus: Hasn't Pandora opened that stupid box yet. What's taking her so long? Panel 2. Hermes is poking is head into frame while Zeus yells at him. Zeus: HERMES! Hermes: Yes Zeus? Zeus: Have you given that box containing all the world's evils to Pandora yet? Panel 3. Close up on Hermes and Zeus. Hermes is cowering awkwardly while Zeus glares. Hermes: Uh... are you sure you said Pandora? Zeus: What have you done this time you dunderhead? Panel 4. Cut to a Panda sitting against a tree eating happily eating Bamboo. A box with a skull on it sits near by completely ignored.
August 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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American Tycoon Horror Story

psvcomic.com/2025/08/20/

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A 4 panel black, white, and grey comic featuring a man with a top had and monocle (Richman). Panel 1. We see Richman with a flashlight under his face in front of a window showing some spooky woods with the night sky above. Richman: The knocking became thumping. The thumping became banging! The door bent, then buckled, then broke open with a great CRASH! Panel 2. His expression changes to solemn. Richman: The horde shambled in. Dirty nails, crooked teeth, and hungry eyes. "What do you want!?" Cried the business owner. "We," they growled and moaned, "have come to bargain..." Panel 3. Cut even close into his face. His expression shifts to a glare as he shouts: "COLLECTIVELY!!!" Panel 4. We cut further back to reveal Richman is inside in a posh dining room surrounded by other rich people who are gasping in horror. One asks: "Would a pool table solve this?" "No" says Richman. "They want a raise! BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!" She replies "I think I'm going to be sick."
August 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Lumberjack's Lament

psvcomic.com/2025/08/13/

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A 4 panel black, white, and grey comic featuring a lumberjack. Panel 1. The lumberjack is outside chopping a tree, looking upset. The text above him, surrounded by musical notes, reads "Oooooh I'm a lumberjack and I'm not okay." Panel 2. The panel is split in half diagonally. The upper half reads "I scroll all night" and depicts the lumberjack in bed starring wide eyed at his phone. The lower half reads "and I stress all day" and depicts the lumberjack walking outside in the woods looking stressed out. Panel 3. Cut to the lumberjack in a therapist's office. He's lying on the couch. A therapist sits near by taking notes. Therapist: Have you considered taking a break from social media? Panel 4. Close up of the lumberjack angrily growling in the therapist's face. "You will pry my phone from my cold dead hands."
August 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I Miss the Stars

psvcomic.com/2025/08/06/

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A 4 panel black, white, and grey comic. Panel 1. The night sky appears with scattered stars. Over it is the text: I've always lived in a city with light pollution. Still, when I was young I could look up and see stars. Panel 2. The stars are mostly gone. Only a few linger at the top of the panel. Over it is the text: But cities change. The skies of my youth disappeared years ago. It's been years since I last saw a star. Panel 3. A silhouette of the a man standing on a hill has been added over the blank void. Over it is the text: I used to wonder what it would be like at the end of time. After all the stars burned out. To look up and see only blank, hungry void. Panel 4. A city has been added looming over the hill, casting light into the sky. Over it is the text: Today, many of us already do.
August 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM