Subnormality #164:The Human Race
If I have to limit reading webcomics, I’d probably be able to give up everything except Subnormality. Winston Rowntree has produced beautiful and poignant comics in the past and he doesn’t disappoint this week. This is among my top favorites along with Weird? and The Line and many others. I suppose what makes this week’s comic special to me is that I have always beaten myself up for lagging behind compared to my peers who are always, it seems to me, zooming along ahead of me. I’ve always taken it as a sign of weakness on my part but this comic demonstrates that each one of us will fall for something that will keep us from reaching our goal at some point in our lives, that it is okay because it is part of being human, that it is okay to ask for help from others and you will get to your goal no matter what, that reaching the finishing line “unscathed” and without suffering from anything is more often a lonelier experience and somehow takes some of the worth and fulfillment of your triumph. What makes this even more awesome is that Subnormality sort of got a trademark and what usually separates it from others is that most of its issues feature huge walls of text that usually piss off people who are used to traditional comic panels. This week is different in that excluding the bottom part of the comic, the text is almost non-existent and yet it conveys its message without all the words that its creator is often fond of. Bravo Rowntree!
