The Latest New Normal Is a F*cking Nightmare

A comic

All images by the author.

Anyone feeling cheerful right now?

I wish I knew more about history, politics, economics, psychology, human nature, Russia, and Ukraine. I wish I knew more about anything that could help make sense of what the heck is going on right now.

But I don’t.

Instead, I’m doomscrolling through Twitter feeds desperately searching for signs of hope. Unfortunately, I haven’t found any. And it’s probably the wrong place to look for such a flimsy thing as hope anyway.

You see, I usually ignore the news. I know the news just mess with my mind and so I tend to be pretty good at ignoring world events I have no control over. But with things having turned awfully serious all of a sudden, I can’t help myself. I feel the same compulsion to check the…