Victims of Comics
Four-panel comic. Panels 1-3 are drawn in mad black charcoal and pen scribbles; the artist is a scribbled tangle seen from behind, his head and shoulders in a loose pen outline, sitting at a desk with crumpled paper balls and a mug of brushes, facing a glowing monitor. The scribble thins out a little more in each panel. 1: On the screen, his pen drawing of The Scream: a long bald head, hands clamped to the cheeks, mouth wide open, swirling sky, the figure hatching from a cracked egg as two long fingers reach down. In the corner, a red heart and 3. Caption: "MY MASTERPIECE..." 2: The screen is now blank pale pink, an empty canvas frame on it. Caption: "I NEED ANOTHER HIT." 3: On the pale pink screen, a sketch of a small smiling ghost under two wavy lines of text. Caption: "JUST THIS ONCE." 4: A sudden switch to a clean, cute style on a pink background: a smiling white ghost with rosy cheeks holds up a shiny pink heart, small pink hearts around him. Text: "SEND THIS TO YOUR SPOOKY DOOPY BOO"

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Sunny side up.

Psst. Pick me up.OK. Put me back.
Bonus panel. A social media post card: a blue round avatar with two eyes and the name victimsofcomics, then the artist's full-colour painting of a small naked figure screaming in a cracked egg on a beach as green alien fingers reach down from above. Below it: a red heart with 3, 0 comments, 1 share. Caption: "FREE RANGE #ART #EDVARDMUNCH #EGGS"
The egg has finally served its purpose. Memories of failure, now rewritten.