Comments on: Sarah and the Seed

Sarah and the Seed

heatherann — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:31:41 -0800

Sarah and the Seed - a 5-part comic about hope and babies by Ryan A.

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:40:05 -0800

Wow that was awesome.

By: roomthreeseventeen

roomthreeseventeen — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:49:45 -0800

I don't think I get it. Nicely drawn, though.

By: hat_eater

hat_eater — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:16:18 -0800

You must have hope - and prepare. That's what I got from it. Besides something in my eye.

By: Katjusa Roquette

Katjusa Roquette — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:17:19 -0800

Love it!

By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:18:39 -0800

Cool story, and well drawn. Very nicely weird.

By: pearlybob

pearlybob — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:57:12 -0800

Way loved it.......Wow....

By: rabbitrabbit

rabbitrabbit — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:38:39 -0800

Wow indeed. Thanks for the post.

By: bubukaba

bubukaba — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:47:46 -0800

Oh my, the book the man is reading in Part 3 is a grimmer story about a plant baby...

By: barnacles

barnacles — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:48:37 -0800

roomthreeseventeen, I rather suspect Ryan's saying something about grandparents there. That or he took the phrase "the fruits of her labor" at face value and ran with it. Either way, that was pretty great.

By: sonika

sonika — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:20:22 -0800

I was worried that this was going in a very different direction... but man, that's a beautiful ending. Love it.

By: elphTeq

elphTeq — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:29:02 -0800

excellent stuff!

By: Space Kitty

Space Kitty — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:01:58 -0800

Now I feel bad because I thought it was, frankly, kind of creepy. Just me then?

By: clarknova

clarknova — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:02:27 -0800

Now I feel bad because I thought it was, frankly, kind of creepy. Just me then? It's metaphor made visual and literal. That's always jarring to the conscious mind. You wanna see creepy? Make yourself and four other friends keep dream journals for a month, with a policy of censoring nothing. Then pass them around. You'll all find out what weirdos you really are.

By: Space Kitty

Space Kitty — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:09:20 -0800

Maybe that´s it because I rarely remember my dreams.

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:14:51 -0800

I know nothing about this man besides having read this comic. And I'm willing to bet $100 that this is an infertility allegory. It's a story about the unanticipated ways families are made - AR, fostering, adoption - the incredible length of the path, the terrible fear it will never happen for you, and the requirement to hold on to hope against all odds. And, in no small way, how absolutely nuts it can make you.

By: sobell

sobell — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:07:16 -0800

DarlingBri, that's how I read it too. Through so much of the comic, there's a palpable sense of emptiness -- of space left unfilled -- and I can't help but believe that's a deliberate visual decision meant to echo the husband/narrator's emotional landscape.

By: egypturnash

egypturnash — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:41:05 -0800

All I can think of is "twelve kids? In a world this crowded? These people are monsters." It is lovely, beautifully made and told. But holy fuck that is way, way too many kids. Way to propagandize for bringing the collapse of the overloaded Earth that much closer, Ryan.

By: IAmBroom

IAmBroom — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:54:29 -0800

All I can think of is "twelve kids? In a world this crowded? These people are monsters." egypturnash, your definition of "monster" varies wildly from mine, even though I agree the planet is overcrowded. I bet I could vehemently espouse some do-good ideal by which you could similarly be judged monstrous...

By: egypturnash

egypturnash — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:25:08 -0800

You don't have to go far to find one, Broom; I'm a transwoman. If you wanna reserve "monster" for more overtly horrible things I guess that's okay. But wanting to have twelve kids, and raise them in the resource-devouring Western way? That's pretty monstrous in my opinion. It's just that the monstrosity is hidden under sentimentally and biologically-hardwired "oh they're so cute" reactions. But I look at that story and just see locusts.

By: heatherann

heatherann — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:51:03 -0800

egypturnash, I took the 12 as a symbolic number, like the 12 tribes of Israel, 12 nights of Christmas, 12 months of the year, 12 inches in a foot, 12 disciples. It's a number of completeness and wholeness, and this is a concept which echoes throughout the comic.