Comic+Creation

Media has an important place and can be very influential to our lives, especially here in the developed world. Just earlier this year there was an array of commercial, creative and personal interpretation of the idea that the world would end in 2012. Movies, parodies, posters, predictions-all released this idea of apocalypse approaching us. I chose to present the personal encounter with this idea that the world is going to end in 2012. The protagonist, in the one-man comics titled “2012” is an average Joe, a defiant comic’s hero. The story starts with his “spectacular” movie theater Friday nights-2012 (a Movie about doomsday) on the agenda for the night. Presentation on the big screen is so immersive that the guy’s real world and media world lines get blurred. He becomes overwhelmed with worries about no tomorrow, acts as if he holds the entire world on his shoulders. The parody here is that instead of like a real comics hero who would take the challenge of jumping on a time machine and going into the future, perhaps arranging with the gods to have the doomsday prolonged for at least another 100 years (he figures he gets to live his life and yet another generation after him can enjoy the beauty of daylight too) he instead decides to drown in self pity. Trying to make the most “out of what is left of life”, my hero starts living excessively, enjoying all vice on the face of earth. He starts drinking, going to late night clubs and to brothels where he picks up an STD. He loses his job because the ultimate freedom has just come about, no bills need to ever get paid, yay! One night, drinking he goes out on the street with a shout out to the world some bizarre gibberish gets hit by a car. He circles the drain.
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