Conspicuous Purgatory
  • Lethargi
    January 4, 2011

    You can always be individual, as long as you’re willing to spend enough.

  • Craig!
    January 4, 2011

    You could always just act different. What happened to the idea that people are not defined by their possessions?

  • Severn
    January 4, 2011

    I see that Cat works at In n Out. I’ve long admired their laconic menu.

    Actually I take that back. I doubt Spartans ate much fast food.

  • Severn
    January 4, 2011

    Hey hey wait. Was Girl sleeping standing up? She really needs to get more rest– that would explain why she hasn’t gotten any taller over the years.

  • Oliver
    January 4, 2011

    Girl needs to check more offers. Looking around these days, I cannot help thinking that individualism must be on sale somewhere.

  • Phatnes
    January 4, 2011

    @Lethargi: … or little enough.

  • Phatnes
    January 4, 2011

    Oh cheese, now I want a chamburgurgle

  • MaggieL
    January 4, 2011

    Nothing individual about iPhone. Pick out something running Android.

  • Leonardo Boiko
    January 4, 2011

    Still not individual enough. It’s only individual if I build my own phone from recycled spare parts and with my own custom kernel. And even then, it stops being individual as soon as it’s published on Make.

  • David Thomsen
    January 4, 2011

    It just occured to me that if you turn Girl’s head upside down, she turns into a serious-looking bald guy with a goatee and a high forehead. Cat turns into a thoughtful Cubist vampire or something.

    It seems to me that as long as you care that people perceive you as an individual, and believe that your possessions contribute to this perception, you will never be an individual.

    But then, I haven’t watched a television advertisment in ten years. I”m a bit out of touch.

  • Chris Adams
    January 4, 2011

    Oh, just knit your own phone.

  • Krimson
    January 4, 2011

    The best way to be an individual is to not give a damn about being an individual.

  • mdmadph
    January 4, 2011

    Yeah, or just get a Motorola F3. It does three things:

    It makes and receives calls:
    It sends and receives texts:
    It has an alarm.

    That’s it. The battery will last about a month on standby. None of your friends will have one.

  • Brendan
    January 4, 2011

    Last panel is hilarious.

  • Jacob Adam
    January 4, 2011

    Want to be an individual? There’s an ap for that.

  • yachris
    January 4, 2011

    I’d buy an upside-down-Cat-picture-T-shirt with “thoughtful Cubist vampire” written under it.

    Dorothy, you’re a genius. This is a fantastic comic, an awesome addition to your portfolio. Oh, and your commenters are hilarious :-)

  • B
    January 4, 2011

    I would prefer no choice. One bread. One milk. One food. That’s all.

  • Erika
    January 5, 2011

    All her friends at school were non-conformists/ So she became a non-conformist too…

  • offbeatjim
    January 5, 2011

    What Krimson said.

  • Gareth
    January 6, 2011

    i dont own a cell phone! does that make me a failure as an individual? or maybe Im not even in the individual race at all! eeek!

    Gareth

  • Paul
    January 6, 2011

    Ouch, You hipsters ruined apple for the rest of us. I liked their stuff before it was cool. (Irony level 10)

    Love the comic and commentators, I think speculation under the comic might be an integral part of the experience of the comic itself. That and the little bit of me that dies inside whenever Girl makes a point.

  • BigNorse
    January 6, 2011

    @mdmadph: Henry Jenkins is squealing with delight.

  • Weston
    January 9, 2011

    Individuals use those old bulky cell phones that you wore or carried around in a bag.

  • Pete
    January 19, 2011

    Reject the terms offered by society! The issue becomes null and void.

  • Mr Lapin
    January 24, 2011

    I made my own phone when I was 16 years old. It was a little easier in those days because phones didn’t have computers in them. In fact, almost nothing except big office buildings and spacecraft had computers in them. Phones connected to a little box on the wall. That was even before plug-in phones.

    Yeah, I’m that old.

    PS – I also walked 15 miles to school, uphill both ways, in the snow year round. Now get off my lawn.

  • Quizzical
    August 4, 2011

    okay, Mr. Lapin… (stupid old man with his monoculture and sarcastic stereotype….)

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