a comic about three plants drifting aimlessly in the ocean
To Be is the eponymously named comic and Stoke’s unequivocal response is ‘not to be’. Against Stokes’s preference though existence will continue. I thought of Stoke’s response thinking it was a clever response to the famous question without realizing the question was in fact about contemplating suicide. For some reason I didn’t know this, although I can’t quite tell you know what I thought the question was in regards to, the only thing that does come to mind when I think of the quote is a Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs is dressed as Hamlet with a skull in hand and asks ‘to be or not to be’. My childhood mind must have been too innocent to grasp the gravity of the question (I’ve tried to find a clip of the video but can’t seem to locate it). In hindsight it really couldn’t be about anything else and what I thought was a clever response in the affirmation of non-existence was actually one of only two answers that could be given. Even if it is not a witty interpretation of the quote it is still very much something a Nihileaf would say, more powerful for the direct and unhesitating manner in which the response is said. – Zachary