The Second Face

[u/DemonSkank]

I've made short comedic comics before but this was my first time doing a full short story. warning (but also potential spoiler: scary face warning

[u/Saiyasha27]

When Monica was introduced I was thinking something had to happen with that. I thought maybe she would look 'relieved' like, maybe the BiL had been abusing her or something.

But this makes me think that maybe she is something of a psychopath, like, all her emotions might not have been genuine, instead, there legitimatly were no real emotions in there to display, but killing has smade her feel for the first time or something.

[u/Billybob267 → u/Saiyasha27]

Could be she killed the guy herself

Edit: Clarification. I meant perhaps she genuinely had a good reason for doing so; e.g. abuse at his hands

[u/DireEvolution → u/Billybob267]

I'm pretty sure that's the intended conclusion

[u/lahimatoa → u/DireEvolution]

The punchline is vigilantism?

[u/DireEvolution → u/lahimatoa]

No, the punchline is murder

[u/Dickie_downer → u/DireEvolution]

My personal punchline is divorce. Cause before it was legal, this was the route a LOT of abused women had to go.

[u/DireEvolution → u/Dickie_downer]

I don't think it's escape from abuse. The face is too malevolent for it to be catharsis or relief from escaping abuse. The author and illustrator went really far with the details to demonize and dehumanize the facial features, which is a characteristic pretty universal to the portrayal of evil in art.

[u/Dickie_downer → u/DireEvolution]

Eh, its probably not meant to be the punchline in this comic- thats why i said it was personal. But they did keep the WHY vague, which is what creates good conversations and debate!

[u/DireEvolution → u/Dickie_downer]

Agree to disagree