This whole thing where is characters are ICly reacting to OOC criticism he's getting reminds me of that whole arc with Antimony's dad in Gunnerkrigg Court
Tom Sidell [handshake] Atsushi Ohkubo Reacting to criticism by having it parroted by strawmen in your comic who then immediately get debated out of existence
reactionary nerds say they don't like politics (read: gay people) in their media because it's always forced and unnatural and doesn't serve the story and then an author who agrees with them grinds his manga to a halt to deliver a bone-achingly awkward monologue about his stupid opinions and they give a standing ovation
Yeah like, divorced entirely of knowing anything else about this series that weird meta bit with the kid's mom is pretty great, but the rest of this is... something.
it's ending on a boob joke that is also a child abuse joke, at the expense of the most interesting character, who basically-kinda-who-fucking-knows died like five pages ago
But in this one, someone else is doing the art and they're like "buddy you get a titty budget, I will draw one character in a short skirt and one other character with big gazongas"
THE HOPE BROUGHT ON BY LEWDNESSReacting to criticism by having it parroted by strawmen in your comic who then immediately get debated out of existencenot like thisa fucking prequel to soul eater
the madness of boobs.