I just got into Clarissa a few months ago, and it makes me very excited to see that you’ve done some updates with it since then! Let’s see what you’ve cooked up, shall we?
I hope you make a ton more of these and end up giving her a good ending to her life in which something happens like she meets someone that she could tell about what has happened to her and then that person going to the police and locking up her dad and then the person that helped her adopts clarissa and then she gets to experience a loving family for the first time and receiving some sort of therapy or something to boost her mental health but idk that’s just what I would love to see. Keep up the comics your work is awesome!
I think the teacher reading the story could represent 2 things…
Either A- the hypersexuality of SA victims as a result of their trauma
or B- how pedophilia/sexualization of children isn’t just on an individual level but rather in big children’s industries too!
For both of A and B, the reason why we’re able to notice it more clearly now is because we’re seeing things through Clarissa’s perspective
What time period does this take place in? The idea I’ve had so far is that it took place decades ago (especially considering Clarissa’s family has the typical 50’s family vibe) but the whole school shooter panic didn’t really start until the late 90’s, and even then it was more of just “ban trenchcoats and treat all the quiet kids like a threat” until, like, 2017. Or at least that’s what I’ve gathered, but I’m no ‘Murican.
I just got into Clarissa a few months ago, and it makes me very excited to see that you’ve done some updates with it since then! Let’s see what you’ve cooked up, shall we?
I hope you make a ton more of these and end up giving her a good ending to her life in which something happens like she meets someone that she could tell about what has happened to her and then that person going to the police and locking up her dad and then the person that helped her adopts clarissa and then she gets to experience a loving family for the first time and receiving some sort of therapy or something to boost her mental health but idk that’s just what I would love to see. Keep up the comics your work is awesome!
Rape jokes in children’s stories in school? This place really needs more aware teachers, or something.
I think the teacher reading the story could represent 2 things…
Either A- the hypersexuality of SA victims as a result of their trauma
or B- how pedophilia/sexualization of children isn’t just on an individual level but rather in big children’s industries too!
For both of A and B, the reason why we’re able to notice it more clearly now is because we’re seeing things through Clarissa’s perspective
What time period does this take place in? The idea I’ve had so far is that it took place decades ago (especially considering Clarissa’s family has the typical 50’s family vibe) but the whole school shooter panic didn’t really start until the late 90’s, and even then it was more of just “ban trenchcoats and treat all the quiet kids like a threat” until, like, 2017. Or at least that’s what I’ve gathered, but I’m no ‘Murican.
@jonbel I think the first page of this comic was published in 1998/1999, so it takes place at least about 25 years ago.
My assumption is that it’s like the Simpsons, where the “when” is just whenever the particular iteration was released.