>>84031198>>>84030902Okay, so I did some digging and figured some stuff out.
I made a post about wanting to quit the day that this was posted:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/commandments/This is not long before Toedad shows up. That was the point where I just started feeling like I wasn't up to reading about college drama, but that was very situational. I was teaching English 100 at that point and was in a pretty bad depressive episode. But I realized around here that I couldn't tell if I didn't like it because I was depressed or if I just didn't like it anymore.
It helped me to start looking at it a little more critically, because I had a VERY full plate and didn't want to waste time on a comic that, at the time (since I was teaching actual freshmen) felt incredibly petty, especially with how some of my students were behaving.
This January, I posted some snark about Willis enjoying the suffering of his readers and was told that I should probably take a break from reading it if I was getting stressed out by it.
Here's the strip that ran that day:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/02-that-perfect-girl/meetcute/And this is the one where he ruined a perfectly good (if a bit stupid) Beetlejuice joke:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/shaping/It was infuriating that he was trying to fit like 3 punchlines into one strip.
I took a few days off and ended up coming back out of morbid curiosity. I started just looking at it one week at a time, more or less.
Then, recently, I got fed up with it and checked to see if I could blow off some steam here. I think it was during the Carla/Mary arc since it was getting so ridiculous and childish and all of his readers loved it to the point of absurdity.
For context, I started reading DoA during its first week, so I've watched it slowly go downhill from a reasonable slice-of-life comic to an unending drama machine.
