Clarissa Saves Halloween-Part 5
AT LAST! Just in time for Christmas, the end of Clarissa’s Halloween odyssey.
I am leaving this until Monday for all the people who have been waiting for it, and Weapon Brown will update on Tuesday.
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AT LAST! Just in time for Christmas, the end of Clarissa’s Halloween odyssey.
I am leaving this until Monday for all the people who have been waiting for it, and Weapon Brown will update on Tuesday.
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Nice ! A kind of happy ending. I dig the Dodge station wagon too. (yea, I know…)
Oh Jason… just… Oh Jason…
JY: I hope that’s positive. 🙂
Why am I reading this and thinking the boys will be ok but Clarissa is going to have to appease an angry Dad because she doesn’t have her candy bucket? I’m seeing her as giving up everything for others and taking the pain and harm for herself. Please tell me I missed something or at least that she will escape this life eventually.
Can someone please explain to me what does “lobster hands” actually mean afterall???
I’m desperate for the information
JY: It’s something you have to extrapolate from the story.
Oh my, Jason, you are so mean hahaha
I’m no stranger to black comedy; I’ve laughed my ass off at everything from dumb 9-11 memes to Electric Retard comics.
But Clarissa is some new form of darkness that I’m not used to. It makes me sick and scared, like I can feel Clarissa’s dread and loathing. When I laugh at these comics it’s little more than a pained chuckle, I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be funny or if I’m only laughing as a coping mechanism.
But I can’t help but want more. I’ve reread these chapters several times now and I need to know what happens next, what pains are withheld for her.
Please, keep making your art. So few works elicit such strong emotions from me and it would be a shame for a premise with so many stories left to tell fade into obscurity.
JY: Wow! Thanks!
Is this the latest clarissa comic?
JY: Yes.
I really, really liked this halloween story, even though i’ve reread clarissa’s story quite a few times since i first read it years ago, this story showed me a (previously unseen, at least for me) side of his brothers and clarissa herself.
JY: Thank you. I am trying to advance Clarissa’s story, and developing her relationship with her brothers is an important part of that.
I share a similary story to Jason,been exposed to dark humour forever,and I’ve always loved it; but this,man,it feels different,I can’t get myself to laugh to it,it’s simply too much,I guess,it’s brilliant.
I hope more comes out and that eventually the story will come to an end.
Thank you for this,thank you for your awesome work. Much love from France.
JY: Thanks Bro’. This story was hard to write, but it also gave me the inspiration for what will be the finale, so stay tuned.
This comic has always held a special place in my heart. Mostly ’cause it makes me feel seen. Like, the dynamics are so real here. Idealistically they would all have some sort of camaraderie or solidarity against their parents, but that’s just not how it turns out most of the time. It physically hurts but like in a good way. It’s how you feel when someone in your same terrible situation makes a joke that anyone else might be horrified at, but you get it so it’s just this mixture of a breakdown/laughing fit. It’s serious but makes me laugh at my own shitty situation.
Fucking aces work, definitely checking out more of your comics.
JY: Thanks!
I read Stuffed Friend many many moons ago, and am just now finding out that there is so much more to this story! I am totally hooked!! This chapter about made me tear up with how selfless Clarissa is… the same goes for the scene where she thought for a moment that she could finally open up about her assault to the other girl her age… and the scenes where she thinks her trauma is her fault… okay, so like 90% of the comic hits me right in the feels. I wish that I could just sweep all of these kids up and have them come live with me instead! Truly can’t wait to see more of her story, especially little things like how her “forcefield” came to be. Clarissa, I’m rooting for your eventual happiness!
I got so excited when I realised there was a new chapter! These comics are terrifyingly brilliant and the expansion of the family dynamic and the brothers’ characters deepens the story. I’ve enjoyed the out-there comedy of the strip previously but the more low-key, realistic humour in this adventure was also excellently done. I really hope you get around to continuing this story, because what you’ve created is really special.
JY: 🙂
I’m kinda sorta seeing this girl who’s into incest roleplay stuff. I think I have to tell her I can’t keep doing it any more.
Cant wait for more clarissa. I love this comic.
Thank you for writing more Clarissa!
JY: Thank Clarissa! She’s the one writing these, not me.
clarissa and randy may just be my favourite comic characters ever. i hope they both go on to heal and have beautiful, happy lives.
JY: Wow! Bodes well for the “Clarissa and Randy’s Spooktacular Mysteries” cartoon I have planned!
incredible, incredible work. i had only been introduced to stuffed friends just today. i keep reading hoping things will get better for clarissa, and now her brothers. that someone or something will swoop in and save her from such an awful situation. that her mother would stop ignoring and pretending and tell somebody who could do something.
as an uncle whose brother was put in prison for this very reason, this comic hits painfully close to me. i had utterly no idea what he was taken in for until a friend, who was part of the jury, broke protocol and told me. christ, i had no idea. my own mother or second brother didn’t tell me.
i’m so glad i had not come across this comic before today. i don’t think i would have ever been able to appreciate nearly as fully as i would have before. i might have just written it off as just another edgy comic. thank you for making this.
JY: You are welcome, Vic. And hopefully I have steered you away from joining Cobra (a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world, and always on the lookout for people with snake names.)
Is there a next chapter?
Finally some kinda of happy chapter
Stumbled on this because I thought about how some are “locked in” with their abusers during covid.
Found this comic and I loved it. Ballsy to make a comic about something so sickening its only presented on some TV special on a fuck all channel.
I really hope things turn out okay for the Clarissas in the world
JY: Me too!
Metalink, my life was a bit worse than hers. This is the comic that hurts the most – the sacrifice of the things, especially childish things, you want to spare your sibling from being hurt by the angry parent because you know you’re going to be hurt anyway. You knowingly make it worse for yourself because you can take it and they can’t. You’re used to it and maybe you’ll get their approval for just a little bit.
This does a pretty good job of humanizing Sean in a sense. He’s a dick to her but ultimately they’re all abused kids completely out of their depth.
Clarissa: so much better than any of these people deserve.
Please please please let these kiddos have a happy ending. Clarissa deserves the world.
This is a fantastic comic, and it has a very autobiographical feel to it, especially now that this chapter has further expanded on the family dynamics. Previous chapters (including the very last one) made me hate Sean and pity Randy, but this one makes it clear how affected and abused they all are in different ways. You’ve also previously mentioned that Clarissa is the one writing this. If that’s true, I’m so sorry for you / your narrative collaborator, and hope you / they have found healing and peace; at least we know they are healed enough to share this amazingly intimate but all too common narrative. In any case, fantastic insight into the complex workings of a deeply abusive upper (?) middle class household. Bravo.
JY: Thank you for the compliments. For the record: Although there are some autobiographical qualities to this story (as with most good stories), the worst parts are not taken from my own experience.