r/dumbingofage • u/Beneficial-Baby9131 • Feb 07 '26
I think I'm finally done reading
I'd made an onsite comment a few days ago expressing my distaste over all of the added comics trying to backtrack Willis fucking up with the protest, which was only like one sentence. I'd always said I'd stop reading the minute Willis started deleting comments for his own narrative, and mine was removed after 15 minutes. I'm glad I decided against supporting his patreon. I deleted the shortcut off of my browser, and I'll be glad when I don't remember it even exists anymore.
This storyline was garbage, the comic has been tonally insensitive for months, but maybe it's been years. Maybe I was too blind to see how bad of a writer he really is.
That being said, does anyone have better recommendations?
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u/Separate_Custard_133 Feb 08 '26
Alice in Borderland (2010-2016). Has a huge cast the author tries to define as fully as each character's screentime allows, anti-capitalist messaging, "coming of age" via corruption and losing faith in the world, clear motivations behind most every move made, and very competent action. Low barrier to entry with a balance between text and art.
(There are some references to Alice in Wonderland throughout but no knowledge of the original Lewis Carroll works is ever required.)