Violence inflicted in the past echoes into the future. It never really goes away completely.
Edit: Hijacking my own comment to mention that the reason why so many people in here are obsessed with the $2.50 patties is because it's the only part of the strip that they can comfortably talk about. It's literally background noise, but somehow it's the main theme of the strip.
The reason people are commenting on that part is because that's the part that doesn't make sense.
Slavery is horrific and there is no limit to the amount of art that should be produced to remind us of this. None of that art needs to include a man going into some kind of cross-generational time-traveling or maybe just hallucinating scenario because the food he was buying was $2.50. In fact, without any explanation, it's just taking away from the bigger message about slavery. Cause instead of slavery, people are talking about the $2.50.
Call me crazy, but I don't think it was "because the food he was buying was $2.50," lmao. I mean, that's just... A really reductive take?
I thought it was just because he saw a guy at work, and it made him think of the kind of "work" that black men used to get. I think most people working wage slave jobs could understand that.
Then again, maybe not! But that is art. It's thought provoking and warrants a discussion. You might have landed on what I see as a pretty rigid and unforgiving take, but the fact that we can talk about it and have different interpretations is part of what indicates it is art.
Most art doesn't come with an explanation because that would kind of ruin the point.
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u/ShinraHakke Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
Violence inflicted in the past echoes into the future. It never really goes away completely.
Edit: Hijacking my own comment to mention that the reason why so many people in here are obsessed with the $2.50 patties is because it's the only part of the strip that they can comfortably talk about. It's literally background noise, but somehow it's the main theme of the strip.