Being paranoid

It seems like wherever I look, I see people breaking up. It has probably always been that way, but now I see it. Take my favorite comic Pondus for example. When I went to the store to buy breakfast this morning, I got a new magazine and to my surprise I saw that two of the main characters in the comic is breaking up! What is unbelievable is that it made me sad. This is actually quite stupid. I KNOW that they are just drawings on a paper, made out of Frode Øverli’s fantasy, but still… I cannot help but get emotionally involved, as silly as it might seem. I have read several reactions online on the break up and all the signs of the different the break up stades are there:

Denying: Noooo! This is not true! It can’t be!
Anger:This is all Camilla’s fault! Must she burn! Øverli (the writer/drawer) has made a huge mistake! I will stop reading the comic!
Depression: It is so unbelievable sad. All my compassion with Jokke. Bwiii…
Accept: Is Jokke single again? Then he is going back to date ugly women and get beaten up. Yay!

The comic is getting darker and more serious, not only funny. Jokke an his now ex-girlfriend has a child together. I think it is a good thing though. The characters evolve, just as we do in real life. Take Donald Duck for example. Shouldn’t Donald’s nephews have grown and shouldn’t Uncle Scrooge be in a nursing home by now? Nevertheless, it is scary how close we get to people who are not real.

~ by mandynd on May 28, 2008.