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lba

on June 25, 2008

Everyone's favorite emotionally unstable panda makes another appearance today. As much fun as I have playing with him and as much as everyone seems to love him, I don't seem to feature him very much. There's probably a very good reason for that, although I'm not sure what it is.

As it is, to my way of thinking webcomics are their own kind of group therapy. A very strange, eccentric and sometimes disturbing group session to be sure, but a group therapy session none the less. Not many other sorts of things gather 30,000 people into one convention center and let them cos-play out all their deepest fantasies, desires and bizarre fascinations, all while avoiding physical contact with water for several days at a time. ( The only other subject I can think of which compares is something best left to the darker corners of the internet really. ). I honestly get the impression, that were it not for that one time a year that those people get to vent all their bizarre behavior, or as scientists who study people ( Scientists who study people are known as Arthropods by the way. ) call it; their "Bizarre Orientation rays" ( BO rays for short. ), these BO rays could potentially build up and cause other people of the normal public severe mental and physical trauma in some closed in environment, like a public elevator. Imagine the trauma a person could receive if they happened to unwittingly step into an elevator containing such a person who had not let their safety valve open recently. The powerful radiation emitting from the comic geek in question could potentially cause certain cavities within the innocent victims skull to explode. So we can see that the form of group therapy that comics provide is a vital one to the well being of all human beings, not just those of us reading and enjoying them. Granted, others may look on with expressions of shock, loathing and possibly even disgust, but they're really doing us all a service by venting in the comic world's most direct form of therapy. And sometimes, a guy just feels prettier dressed up like Sailor Moon.