Chad deserves some credit for not falling into the throes of madness; he’s got a lot of ridiculous stuff nipping at his heels. Substantially more than most teenagers, I’d wager.
You might have noticed, dear reader, that all the titles on the white board share a common author. Mr. Bradbury passed a few weeks ago, and while this strip and his work don’t contain much of the same DNA, I’ve been awestruck my entire life by his ability to weave that greatest of questions – what does it mean to be human? – throughout his entire body of work. He didn’t always fashion an uplifting answer, but he strove to find a true one, and his legacy lives on through every writer and reader he inspired to grapple with his question.