#punativejustice — Public Fediverse posts

I've recently become enthralled by Maximus Graves's #webcomic #WhatHappensNext Will Shock You: https://whathappensnext.webcomic.ws/archive/ .

To me, it feels like an example of #art indirectly grappling with the #covid19 #pandemic. The main character's isolation and stagnation resonate with my experience of still being #CovidCautious. I don't know the artist's stance on #covid, but the first comic was posted in 2021 when some people still took it seriously.

The #comic also deals with #RestorativeJustice, #PunativeJustice, #transphobia, #incarceration and more themes in the story of a young trans man recently released from a psych ward after being convicted as a murder accomplice in his teens. Denied a meaningful way to re-enter society and trapped by #trauma, he becomes aimless and depressed. It's dark, but it's also punchy, unabashedly #queer, emotionally honest, and deeply compassionate.

I don't know that I've ever read a story quite like this and wanted to share it!