Slam Comic

A comic about the life of poets.

[rargona]

“Ice Heart” written by me. Slam Poem 

 Words (Give me a minute to add them, thanks!)

You know,

I keep getting told

that a heart growing cold 

is a show of weakness 

and, you know, fair. 

But I’m not estranged from cliche

because cold hearts are a mainstay of

angsty teen over dramatic poetry

O woe is my life after you had left me.

I’ve seen others describe

their own hearts filled with ice

as lifeless

and dead.

I suggest that, instead

Our worth isn’t fleeting

when our chests lack the

beating

beating

beating.

An ice-coated heart is like glass in an action movie.

It’s only good for breaking

but does so

in spectacular fashion

as a window

it merely passes. 

I’ve tried being melted.

I’ve held arms so warm they physically burned

like a kid with the stove you’d think I’d ought to have learned

and, ok, fair. 

but when you’re partially melted 

and left completely alone

you refreeze in a shape

not entirely your own

Each half-measure healing left me feeling just

slightly

more deformed from before, and look.

look.

It’s romantic to look in your eyes

when you say you’ll be here

and I know you’re not lying

or at least, you’re not trying

but I did try a dozen times, so forgive the skepticism if you could. 

We with frozen hearts are sworn

to take this breaking and make it an art form

look at this, look at this, I know how cold it is.

Trace the cracks with your fingers.

Lie to me, and feel them cut in deeper

I’ve tried to keep the lines in line

but they all just dig in steeper and- 

what I want you to do?

What I want you to do, is take this baseball bat

and swing.

With everything you’ve got

in one devastating shot

shatter. me. 

Break my ice heart in a thousand falling pieces

a mist amidst you

like tumbling snow

I’ll fall apart all for you

and as I do

catch the snowflakes on your tongue

Every stupid quirk, triumph and sin

feel them fall against your skin

Just give it a second

and I swear they’ll melt right in.

But if you don’t like the cold

that’s

you know,

fair. 

[rargona]

SLAM 6- 3/20/18

Got quite a few slams coming up this week, but they shouldn’t interfere with returning to the Monday-Friday upload schedule.

Let’s introduce some characters!

[rargona]

SLAM 5- 3/13/18

Your first performance is 

* the roughest

* the most important

*usually about a breakup

strip 6 will be coming out next week, with sketches filling time later this week. I’ve been away from my home computer and have been coasting on other people’s laptops, which you can definitely tell in the quality here. 

You’ll be learning names soon, thanks for checking this out!

[rargona]

SLAM 4- 3/10/2018

Oh, so that’s who was making all that noise.

Drink responsibly, kids. 

wait. 

[rargona]

SLAM 3- 3/5/2018

( ) fight

( ) flight

(X) kick the thing that makes you nervous’ ass. 

[rargona]

SLAM - 2 

I’m grateful to

these blinding lights

and shelter from

their binding eyes

[rargona]

SLAM - page 1. 

I was not happy with how the first pages look. Legibility is sort of a big deal and the tools I’ve been working with are not producing readable text. This first one is still sketchy, but I hope to fix this soon. I took some time to try and establish more of a style and consistent panel-age. Once more, from the top, with feeling.

[rargona]

[rargona]

I’m sure that whatever this is, it will go well. 

This is a sketch of the first page. It’s been redone and looks much better now! I hope this goes well and if you like hipster bullshit you should stick around!