SAD SACK

🔞18+ ONLY, SEX ULTRAVIOLENCE SNUFF🔞 1000+ pages. five pals get together in long island city in the summer of 2018 for a series of really funny parties story + art by BARBATUS, inks + finals by MEANBOSS -itch.io -gumroad -booth SUS.SPACE/SADSACK

[barbatusart]

SAD SACK & The State Of Hosting

hello folks, BARBATUS here. given that the itchio is doing what it's currently doing, i have a couple of things i'd like to touch on:

right off the bat, i wanted to thank everyone for your continued support & enjoyment of SAD SACK, SORTIE, & all the rest that MEANBOSS and i have worked on over the years! a lot of this is old (to the point of coming up on a decade in a couple of years, sheesh) but im still always so happy to see it still bouncing around in discussions out there online

im keeping all of the comics up for download on itchio, so those who've already purchased should (ostensibly) still have download access. if you're having any trouble nabbing what you've already paid for, please feel free to message me with proof of purchase & ill shoot you the relevant .pdfs no problem. ultimately i dont know how long our stuff will be able to continue to exist on itchio, but that brings me to my next point:

SAD SACK is now hosted in full on GODLESS.COM - godless.com/collections/godless-comics-1 - under their newly introduced comics section! i want to keep it that people who've already paid for our work on itchio still have access to it, but for those who are curious about our stuff & approaching as new readers, i would highly recommend going through GODLESS instead of itchio. please also feel free to use the GODLESS link if anyone's got friends asking about where they can find shop links; i've already gone ahead & replaced all my links to point there, & ill do a flashier GODLESS redirect on the relevant socials when i have a second

as always, endless gratitude for your support, your enjoyment, and for allowing us to entertain you

[barbatusart]

quick note but hosting has pivoted fully to GODLESS as on top of itchio doing what theyre doing, they have also been fucking me horrendously by way of not taking any sales tax out in spite of my repeated begging for them to & then the IRS comes screaming at me every year lmao

[barbatusart]

eerie sequence from SORTIE 2: I AM A MAN OF PEACE (prelim pages by me, inks & finals by the incomparable & extremely handsome @meanbossart) that i still super enjoy, this part was a joy to write hehe

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[oathbreakerapologist]

been drawing Sal from @sadsackcomic because that comic has utterly consumed me. I haven't read Sortie yet so this is based solely on Sad Sack alone

been thinking about Sal as a representation of the duality of the mission of the group overall—on one hand, a sense of righteous retribution, justice, healing; on the other hand, incredible violence increasingly for its own sake—and as a Levinasian duality, the Face and the Other condensed into a single man, a denial of both self- and other-ness (relations denied, that is, to himself as much as those around him)

[barbatusart]

literary-minded anon came back & i received literally the most wonderful message on the planet like the kind of message id always dreamed of receiving but gotta put it under a cut, HEAVY sadsack spoilers below 🥰

oh anon thank you............. im so happy lol i apologize for letting this sit in my inbox for a minute but i had work all week & i wanted to sit down with this and give it the time it deserved!

thank you, thank you, THANK YOU first off. i unfortunately couldnt say that their positioning around garv at the end had deliberate significance, but at this stage it's clear that 5 is meant to be read into deeper even beyond authorial intent. not to wave it off with "it is what you make of it" but some of that scene chalks up to that - Except mal. the framing is such that while on the ground he's staring Directly at namrata, & ideally with a bit of harder reading-into you can see the white knight wheels turning & locking in place forever in that moment for him

the injuries garv sustained were exactly what he planned on doing to the femme vic & were ritualistic in the sense of ritual planned for her, & general ritual of this quasi human sacrifice the others were doing in order to not come to terms with the reality of what they were doing. but also theres a very specific injury garv didn't receive. if u look every single one of the victims had their left eye removed at some point, & the only eye removal happening in 5 is the removal of sal's right eye - which interestingly leaves him with his left for the entirety of sortie. if we look at a simplified lateralization of brain function, the right hemisphere (which controlls the left side of the body ie the left eye) is characterized by processing artistic awareness & general imagination, and the left hemisphere (right eye) is more analytical & objective processes. what that means & how it relates to victim left eye & sal right eye, i leave up to your interpretation

as for the ending, i had it personally in mind that it was meant to related right back to what namrata was saying in the car by way of: the physical entity responsible for traumatic episodes doesn't need to be present in order to live forever in the mind if undealt with - like planets, stars, or the concept of god doesn't need to be present in order to "exist." therefore the prior victims & garv dont even need to be there, because the poorly-managed repercussions live forever. more psychological-surrealism than magical, BUT the ending is so open ended that i welcome & enjoy any interpretation

im so happy you had so much fun anon. please please please please please feel free to hit me up more & pick my brain forever ❤

[toonophiliac]

△DEGENERATE△

🔊 Rectum by Thomas Bangalter from the movie Irreversible Garv belongs to @barbatusart

[meanbossart]

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[meanbossart]

TODAY AND TODAY ONLY-- YOU PAY FOR OUR WORK, WE GET EVERY CENT OF IT, WHAT A CONCEPT!

enjoy over a thousand pages of extreme horror, extreme gore, psychological deepdives and one cute story about a guy who takes pictures of his, uh, droppings.... FOR 30% OFF!

>>>suscomics.itch.io<<<

[barbatusart]

hey did you know our covers are great lol

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[sadsackcomic]

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[sadsackcomic]

i’m not superstitious but i am afraid to prune my money tree

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[sadsackcomic]

(you knew i would call, didn't you)

I can make a perfect picture

(what do you want from my calls?)

From a voice

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[sadsackcomic]

one thing to you

you gotta go and do

you gotta be awake today in the half-light

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[sadsackcomic]

sand, wind and carcass

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[sadsackcomic]

悪夢

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[sadsackcomic]

I LIKE HOT VOIDS SMOOTH PANTS LAZY BEDS IN THE RAIN

I LIKE TONGUE PETALS LATHER A BLISTERING SUN

BUT WHAT I LIKE BEST IS THE WORSHIP OF A LUSCIOUS APPARATUS

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[sadsackcomic]

llegando al cielo al fin sabré si dios es un perro también si ladra como yo y si pelea muy bien con otros dioses que se ponen bravos sin saber por qué

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[barbatusart]

actually on that note heres a full comic i started about UTIs that i never finished LOL