Bliss by Harry Bliss for January 23, 2021

Too much time doing nothing.

Harry, you’ve taken on a very strange appearance. Of course, we didn’t see what you looked like before the lottery win.

This is a bit like people must become as they get older in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth“

This is also very timely!

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/powerball-winning-ticket.html

“I am not an animal! I am a human being!”

What movie?

Bonus points for naming the actor.

Is that what a party animal looks like ?

This is what happens when you eat too much junk food, kids.

Has Harry become Clayface?

I don’t get it.

Did Harry win the big $1 billion Mega Lottery?

Winning a large lottery jackpot (assuming I played) could certainly turn out to be a curse in disguise. But I don’t know that it would be quite that bad.

He forgot to put a painting into his attic.

“Beauty” is in the Eye of the Beholder? (“Eye of the Beholder” was a memorable episode of The Twilight Zone)

He’s become an internet troll?

The Golgotha (feces) Demon from Dogma?

I’l surmise that Harry is the bald man looking at the blackboard instead of the the giant obtuse phlegm ball that got into the classroom.

“Medical experimental subject lottery”?

Bender from Futurama turned human.

I’ll just admit it – ?

That’s me on some mornings. And no I didn’t win the lottery.

Looks like the Rump after the election!

Am I the only one who hasn’t a clue what this comic is about ? What point is it making and why is it funny ?

It’s almost a direct visual metaphor for what happens so often with lottery winners or people who inherit lots of money. It happens so often that it’s become a cultural meme, a narrative trope.

That is… Over and over we hear of someone coming into a fortune and then not only spending it all in a year or so but simultaneously going deep into debt because they bought so much stuff on the credit extended to them because of their wealth. And because they know little or nothing about about handling money or investing, they make poor choices there and lose money.

Their lives are wrecked. Their “good luck” destroys them. With this individual, it’s symbolically represented as physical destruction of the “winner.”

He looks like a melting Quasimodo.

The cost of winning often exceeds the cost of not.