Loose screws

This is a short comic (often circulated as a meme) that tells a dark, satirical horror story about vanity, illegal plastic surgery, and identity theft. Here’s the sequence explained panel by panel: A plain-looking blonde girl is excited and decides to go to a cheap, shady clinic for extensive plastic surgery to become beautiful. She…

The Mausoleum The word itself feels heavy in the mouth, like a stone dropped into still water: mausoleum. It comes from a single building, the original one, built around 353 BCE in Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap of the Persian Empire. His grieving widow-sister Artemisia II spared no expense. Greek architects Satyros…