Hey, next comic is here. Also you can watch this as a video for whatever reason, as linked below. Weird! -Wr
Subnormality #230
November 29, 2021Virus Comix News
Subnormality and some other stuff too.
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Subnormality and some other stuff too.
Hey, next comic is here. Also you can watch this as a video for whatever reason, as linked below. Weird! -Wr
Virus Comix News 
November 29, 2021 at 12:06 pm
Wow. It’s been being nine o’clock an awful lot for me recently. Maybe I can use this. Thanks!
November 29, 2021 at 12:41 pm
“There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find
Nor can his Watch Fiends find it, but the Industrious find
This Moment & it multiply. & when it once is found
It renovates every Moment of the day if rightly placed.”
–William Blake, 1757-1827
November 29, 2021 at 2:26 pm
I think I will have to re-read it, it went straight above my head. Maybe I wasn’t in the right headspace for that one or maybe it’s too soon for me and it will click in a few years.
November 29, 2021 at 4:37 pm
So good to see something here again. And this one is fantastic for me: hits where I live right now. Thanks huge!
November 29, 2021 at 6:29 pm
Your comics always hit me straight in the feels. It’s as if you somehow have managed to put all the thoughts I’ve had down on paper (err…screen?) and combined it with pictures. I don’t remember when I first found Subnormality all those years ago but it feels like you’ve always been a part of me. I am so glad that you produce these strips!
November 29, 2021 at 8:51 pm
YOU’RE BACK! So good to see that. We worried!
This is lovely. Might have broken me out of a slump. I had it all figured out, and then circumstances changed, and distractions appeared, and winter came, and I’m a sofa-sitting, bread-eating mess.
November 29, 2021 at 10:03 pm
Wonderful
November 29, 2021 at 11:08 pm
🧡
November 30, 2021 at 12:14 am
The blue circles on a red background… That’s an optical illusion, right? It looks 3D… It’s doing funky things to my eyes. I’m not the only one seeing this, right? I could stare at it forever…
(Still midway reading, I just… Had to comment, the effect was so strong.)
November 30, 2021 at 1:33 am
Blue and red are complementary colours (“opposites”), the effect you see is the strong contrast between the colours. Try staring at the blue/red area for 30-60 seconds, then look at a white wall or a white paper for a really funny effect. (and yes, it’s safe. what will happen is that you will saturate your eyes with the respective colours in a certain area and when you look at the white background instead, the brain will “subtract” the saturated colour from white, which will leave it’s complementary in place instead).
November 30, 2021 at 2:36 am
Wow! (Took you awhile, but) totally worth the wait.
Thank you.
November 30, 2021 at 9:00 am
You make melancholy hauntingly beautiful and beauty hauntingly melancholic and haunting beautifully melancholic. And there is hope all over it. Thanks for making these.
November 30, 2021 at 11:49 am
I like the message, and I’m gonna have to re-read this one later to see if I missed any of the little details.
November 30, 2021 at 1:12 pm
I really like this!!!
Ethel looks so hot now tbh… the way you draw faces has really evolved and I really like it, I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it so much since I already liked your old style but it’s just so good?? Thank you for making this stuff for free and sharing it with us, I’ve been following your work since I was 13 or 14. (I always found ethal pretty but I never rlly got “bombshell” vibes from her before) (sorry if that’s weird of me to say)
November 30, 2021 at 4:57 pm
The most paradoxically reassuring insight on soul mates came from Randall Munroe – you shouldn’t worry about missing your soul mate because even if you have one, you probably never met them and never will.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/9/
December 2, 2021 at 8:23 am
❤
December 7, 2021 at 6:38 pm
Feels like getting a letter from old friends.
December 10, 2021 at 10:34 pm
Lovely and moving. Many thanks.
December 12, 2021 at 6:04 pm
just come across your work, fabulous.
Tremendous text and art, will look out for more!
December 15, 2021 at 4:38 am
This is amazing! It always baffles me how deep your insight into the human condition is. I hope you are doing well during these tough times
December 15, 2021 at 1:12 pm
Second read, I still don’t get it. It’s pretty rare that one of your comics (stories) don’t click with me, but this one just escapes me completely. Sorry I failed you, I guess?
February 20, 2022 at 6:55 pm
It’s about resentment, of what you could have been, and of what you are now.
You need to have felt or are feeling resentment towards something for it to click for you.
December 31, 2021 at 8:09 am
Sage wisdom going into a new year.
January 6, 2022 at 7:49 pm
It took me a while to notice the counting pattern across characters. I’m slow that way. Somehow I can’t figure out where the “8” is supposed to be, either in the words or in the art…is it the 8 hours a day that Ethel spends at her day job?
January 6, 2022 at 7:52 pm
NVM, found a tiny “H8” badge on Ethel’s left lapel. 😁
January 8, 2022 at 3:30 am
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain” -Charles Bukowski
January 12, 2022 at 12:59 pm
I thought I got the point on first read, but I’m seeing a lot more on rereading. It comes together as a thing.
And I realize, even as I continue to face a whole lot of 9 PM, I have actually been able to use “hey, I did in fact have some non-$#^!!% moments recently” to help me hop over present obstacles. Some of them, at least. In fact, there’s a thing I should go do right now. Over and out.
January 19, 2022 at 5:25 am
Done properly and with abandon, you can live many lives in your allotted time.
February 1, 2022 at 6:15 pm
Thank you. I’m so glad you’re still there. This one made me cry a whole awful lot.
February 15, 2022 at 6:02 pm
Hey, I’ve been dropping by once in awhile to read your latest works for over a decade now, and I just want to let you know that somehow, nearly every time I read a new page of yours, it seems to be exactly what I needed to hear at that point in my life. There’s no one else out there doing it quite the way you do, putting down on metaphorical paper the nuanced and broadly varied spiraling dialogues that hone in on deeply considered impressions of life, and day-to-day philosophy. Thank you so much for continuing to share your thoughts in such a beautiful, unique form.
February 17, 2022 at 6:00 pm
Haven’t been here in a while. A year ? Maybe more. Anyhow. Thank you for the mental grounding-wire. Did me good. Have a good one.
February 23, 2022 at 12:00 pm
I review ALL the past work sometimes, and EVERY time, I have to note you have knocked another one out of the park.
February 23, 2022 at 4:35 pm
i forget to stop by and then i do and wow every time. loved this comic for years but i don’t know if i ever commented before and it’s well past time 🙂
February 24, 2022 at 7:31 am
I already commented on this comic once, but it’s rough out. And I needed this one again. It always makes me happy to see Zoe moving on. I hope better is out there for her. I really do.
March 14, 2022 at 10:17 am
I am so happy I came back here.
March 19, 2022 at 7:04 pm
I needed this in so many ways today.
Thank you for sharing this.
Counting now…
March 20, 2022 at 9:40 am
Thank you for Count to Ten. This was art and spoke to me.
March 20, 2022 at 10:47 pm
This is beautiful
March 27, 2022 at 1:00 pm
winston rowntree, i think i may grow old with your work. Please continue, these parasocial friends of mine are as real as any other, their lives inform mine. I hope their troubles do not weigh on you too greatly
April 18, 2022 at 1:14 am
Haven’t read Subnormality since high school.
It’s better than I remembered. Rock the fuck on.
-JustButton
May 24, 2022 at 11:35 am
YES.
Good to see you back, and that you survived the plague!
May 25, 2022 at 1:28 am
Your comics mean so much to me. They make me cry and smile.