The latest comic, Originality, is very simplistic and centered around a straightforward premise that all thoughts are unoriginal. They are nothing more than the amalgamation of other thinkers. Even what appears to be original has the telltale signs of influence of others that paved the way. In actuality there has to be some originality to new thoughts and ideas or else everything would remain stagnant. It would mean nothing new was created and the counterfactual is that new art, music, cinema, and literature is constantly being born. Still there may be aspects of a thought or idea or prose that is original, but can anything ever truly be original in a species that has common languages amongst its members and has to teach a shared history? All known thoughts have an axiom of humanity. There is also a more subtle and hidden meaning to the comic, which is everything that Stoke says is dictated by me, so Stoke’s statements are in fact unoriginal and directly attributable to me. In this comic Stoke is nothing more than an unwitting pawn in a self-allegory of my self-debasing, self-deprecating, and self-effacing mood. – Zachary