“ WHAT  THE  FUCK?    ”

RORSCHACH HAD NEVER BEEN one to pay much attention to his birthday. his mother hadn’t either, leaving him to bury his nose in a comic he purchased with sparsely saved change, before sneaking into the kitchen for an extra helping of food while his mom was busy with yet another client. he’d put his head under his pillow, try to drown out the noises, and thumb his way through the pages, before hiding it, tucking it behind his bed. ‘a waste of money’, he was sure she would have called it. he wasn’t in the mood to be berated again. 

they made efforts at the orphanage, presenting him with a small slice of cake, nauseatingly sweet, as if it were to make up for how dry it was, with a half-melted candle jammed into the center. those around him were urged on to clap by steely-eyed caretakers - the noise was unbearable, as was the humiliation. 

So I was cleaning my room the other day and I found some disks with some old artwork on them. On one of them was this old comic I drew and posted anonymously on 4chan back in 2009. I never signed it because I drew it in a rush to troll* the comics board (it was a few days before the film would come out and everyone was feeling very emotional about Watchmen) and I was just in the habit of posting doodles anonymously around then. There was a short thread, a few people reposted it for awhile, and then after the movie hype and Watchmen discussions died down I kinda forgot about it.

I found out a few years later that the thing kinda blew up on reddit and some other sites some time after that, and some people even wrote articles about it. Someone even drew an alternate happy ending lol.

It was pretty cool but kinda weird haha.