I know I'm not the first, but fucking Zoombinies?! Primary school memories flooding back! Awesome!
And this is an interesting little arc, keep it up!
And this is an interesting little arc, keep it up!
Critical Miss: Just Another 9 to 5, Part 2
- Thread starter The Wooster
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I haven't taken the time to write about this before but I think I'd like to just get it out there since I've been thinking about it a lot:
I've been a constant reader of Critical Miss and always enjoyed it, but ever since the Critical Miss: Stowaways storyline it's been almost compulsive. After learning main character Erin had survived a car crash and suffering cranial trauma I had to keep reading. I was actually scared that the series was ending. I've checked every week for another issue almost out of concern for her because of my own experience.
Last year, around 3:30 in the morning on September 11th, I woke up in the hospital with no memory of how I got there, with the last thing I remember being my departure from my friend's house on my bike. Later when nurses were making their first rounds they had told me I had been in a collision with another biker and had suffered a very disconcerting concussion.
I've had a lot of difficulties with my life since then (and also before then, lots of big dramatic changes in the last few years, long story), with lack of restful sleep and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder being in the definite Top 3 Problems I Have Every Day.
So in Erin I found someone (fictional, but that doesn't matter if they feel real enough right?) that I can identify with: the confusion, pain, and struggle with recovery from such an accident. And I also get to see that same person get back on their own two feet and get on with their life and deal with the problems that arise without letting it change who they are at the basic level.
All with good humor and art as a bonus.
In this series I've found inspiration during hard times to gather myself up, take a deep breath, and tell myself, "Okay, you can do this. One day at a time. At least Blastoise isn't trying to knock you out of the shower and Duke Nukem isn't raiding your fridge."
Thank you Cory. Thank you Grey.
P.S. Also helping me build up steam to actually finish my own comic, so thanks for that too!
I've been a constant reader of Critical Miss and always enjoyed it, but ever since the Critical Miss: Stowaways storyline it's been almost compulsive. After learning main character Erin had survived a car crash and suffering cranial trauma I had to keep reading. I was actually scared that the series was ending. I've checked every week for another issue almost out of concern for her because of my own experience.
Last year, around 3:30 in the morning on September 11th, I woke up in the hospital with no memory of how I got there, with the last thing I remember being my departure from my friend's house on my bike. Later when nurses were making their first rounds they had told me I had been in a collision with another biker and had suffered a very disconcerting concussion.
I've had a lot of difficulties with my life since then (and also before then, lots of big dramatic changes in the last few years, long story), with lack of restful sleep and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder being in the definite Top 3 Problems I Have Every Day.
So in Erin I found someone (fictional, but that doesn't matter if they feel real enough right?) that I can identify with: the confusion, pain, and struggle with recovery from such an accident. And I also get to see that same person get back on their own two feet and get on with their life and deal with the problems that arise without letting it change who they are at the basic level.
All with good humor and art as a bonus.
In this series I've found inspiration during hard times to gather myself up, take a deep breath, and tell myself, "Okay, you can do this. One day at a time. At least Blastoise isn't trying to knock you out of the shower and Duke Nukem isn't raiding your fridge."
Thank you Cory. Thank you Grey.
P.S. Also helping me build up steam to actually finish my own comic, so thanks for that too!
And yet, seeing the zoombinis is not what I'm stuck thinking after this strip. All I can think of is Doctor Beat. Because they [http://penny-arcade.com/2011/09/30] told me about it, and it won't leave.
[small]Won't you help me Doctor Beat...[/small]
[small]Won't you help me Doctor Beat...[/small]
Oh, shit. I hope you can get over your problems, and it's nice to know you've found something like Critical Miss that's helped you come to terms with that predicament of yours and work towards returning to a healthy lifestyle.Fwee said:
Don't forget that, along with Critical Miss, you have people like us Escapists that can relate to your problem and help you out, as well as many of your irl friends. Hope you can recover.
If you're just recently reading or had just recently started rereading Critical Miss, the main character, Erin (the girl), had suffered from a traumatic car accident earlier in the comic's storyline, leaving her mentally scarred and having delusions of video game characters appearing in her life, as shown in the storyline. As it's shown at the conclusion of that arc and during this arc, she hasn't recovered from her condition, but has grown to accept it as a part of her lifestyle.honestdiscussioner said:
I got most of that, but I thought it was over. Are the character's she's seeing now actually people that she merely views as video game characters, or are they entirely imaginary?ThunderCavalier said:
It's not over. Erin never got over this psychological trauma, as it quite evident from the Link hallucination and... um... all of the other hallucinations.honestdiscussioner said:
She may view some people as the hallucinations, but given where some of the characters were in the first part, it might be safer to assume that these are just figments of her imagination conjured right out of thin air and aren't stand-ins for any tangible objects.
