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I do feel bad for him, and especially the ex-girlfriend having the miscarriage in college (it was years back before he drew the comic and not his wife according to wikipedia with his own blog post as source).
And while a do feel bad about the event, I'm not a fan of him putting this trauma event of his and her life in the public as part of a gaming/gag webcomic.
I agree with you that it's a morally conplex situation and this was likely not the right move, but at the same time... This is what art is. Art isn't just cheap laughs as memes. Some of my favorite comics are the deeply personal ones that convey pain, depression, suffering, even loss.
However i will add that Loss never really landed for me. I thought it was odd and the art style didn't do it any favors.
Absolutely. I agree. I'm not against expressing pain and personal struggle in art. Some of my favorite art pieces are exacly that and it feels extremely personal. It's exacly as you say: the problem of loss is not that it expresses pain, suffering, etc, but that it feels weird in the sudden tone shift, style and with the funny gaming webcomic context. Not that a tone shift can never work, but i wouldn't say it did in this case.
I'm guessing part of fhe meme being successfull is because a lot of people felt that way. It's definitely art, but art comes with the ivitation of being up for interpretation and criticism.
In a way, the meme turned that four panel comic into a whole seperate artpiece, one that is born from and does express the awkwardness in a way.