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E is for Ennui - [The Existential Comics] (static.existentialcomics.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Source: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/602

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Big Bird: "The next letter is G. God is for God, who doesn't exist, and if God doesn't exist, that means everything is permitted..."

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

This feels like a very Tumblr joke. Purple prose trying too hard to expand on a simple concept, ultimately losing any real connection to the starting context.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (33 children)

I thought it was just boredom but in a pretentious and French way...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

The word is loaned 1:1 from the french word for boredom

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

N is for Neville, who died of ennui.

https://youtu.be/iMSdV9misgc

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait, what do you mean it's nameless? It's called Ennui? Is that not it's name?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The combination is ennui. Ennui is a conglomeration of despair inducing feelings, among which is the nameless horror.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah, ok. I thought it was an umbrella term, not a conglomerate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Maybe more a consortium, or a concern. Definitely not a corporation; it's not publicly traded.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes frogs are brown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They may have dyuers coloures.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Frogs aren't happy.....I had a frog in my back yard last year for 2 weeks. He just screamed bloody murder the entire time. Just hours and hours of screaming at 2am.

I don't know if he hopped away, or if he got eaten by a predator, but I feel like I appriciate the circle of life a little bit more knowing that fuckers probably dead.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He wasn't necessarily unhappy. He was probably horny, though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

That's a good stratagy. I'm going to go to the bar this weekend and just stand next to women. Then just start screaming as if I'm being stabbed, while a basket of puppies burn in a fire. All with an erection.

What could possibly go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's worth a shot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

If you're eaten by a snake because you sound like a frog, I will enjoy the scientific paper that results.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What could possibly go wrong?

Lots of watery wet frog eggs in a pond near your bedroom window.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Nothing like empiricism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck me... That's a real word.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Taken from french, maybe ? IDK, I'm not a languiste.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes. It's french for "boredom", but the kind of boredom that's results from life being too easy. It's like being an over-achieving student in a class where the teacher is focused on the kids who are struggling to catch up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It actually translates to boredom in every context!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

N is Neville who died of ennui

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

The Gashlycrumb Tinies!