Yes. I mean, she didn't press charges on Chris, and she's the only one who'll put up with Chris' BS (she may not be aware that Chris will continue to 'heal' her when he comes back). Now that Harriet an Tom are in the picture, I assume it didn't take long to convince Barb to cut ties with Chris after years of notoriety and spergery.
No, but there are niche sub genres of outsider art Chris absolute qualifies for. Someone like Darger has a deeply personal and unique vision in their creation. Sonichu is interesting for the exact opposite reasons, in my opinion
The thing is, we don’t know how injured Barb is. If Harriet is taking care of her and is in charge, Chris is screwed (and not in the way he wants to be).
Sonichu is supposed to be his wish fulfillment on paper where he can look at it. 9/11 and the war don’t fit in.
You were actually willing to consider that possibility; that's a good thing.
I think you're both right, but it still surprises me that there's no real influence at all. I'm not expecting something like the viral Turning Red review where some Youtuber complains that it isn't realistic because the characters aren't talking about 9/11.
IIRC, it was posted here that someone found a mural of sonichu at an Australian café, and a woman got a tattoo of it. It's gradually becoming that way. The last thing Chris needs is an ego boost.
There's absolutely no way weens will let that happen, I bet attention seekers like Ethan Ralph might even be willing to camp out in their car around near 14 Branchland Court when Chris gets released for the opportunity to livestream Chris getting arrested again or film him trying to get back into his house.
I'd say that's because there was constant media refrences to Trump (Even My Little Pony refrenced Trump) and the news kept referring to him like he was an over the top villian so it's easy for Chris to think 'Hmm yes, I will be part of getting the first woman elected over the big bad orange man!' (There's also the whole Lisa Simpson vs Trump thing too).
The media Chris usually consooms don't usually call their bad guys terrorists because they don't want to scare kids or get angry letters from parents so they just call the bad guys something like a supervillain. Even if he did hear about terrorism from Family Guy or the Simpsons those shows only use terrorists or terrorism as a joke or social commentary in an episode, not as a threatening villain. Mary Lee Walsh and the PVCC are set up, and treated like a Legion of Doom or cartoon supervillain because thats what Chris's frame of reference is. Had he been watching police shows or action movies at the time then maybe he would have called the PVCC terrorists.
Another thing to think about is who Chris was associating with at the time. When he was really anti-Pmurt he was associating with the local LGBT crowd who probably always kept in his mind that "Angry Orange Man bad", and he was following tons of LGBT news sources that were all anti-Trump. Everything in his world was pushing an anti-Trump message and gave Chris motivation to try and work his voodoo magic on him with Legos and Transformers. Once Chris fell under the influence of the Idea Guys and left the real world behind, his interests shifted away from real world politics involving LGBT rights and immigration to protecting CWCville from ADFs Nazi army and a laser cannon on the moon. After that he was spending all his time with enablers role-playing with him or at cons where people were talking about cartoons and games, not how bad the President was and he stopped caring for the most part because everything was talking about him and his imaginary world.
Good points. It does go against my main hypothesis about Sonichu that you point out Chris is more selective about what makes it into the comics and what doesn't. He Consooms indiscriminately but only a narrow range of children's properties make it into the way he tells his life's story. It's not as much passive regurgitation as I suggested.
The problem is both of those artists had actual talent and while strange, their work has quality to it, and that's even when Johnston was flat out batshit crazy much of the time. He even once crashed his father's plane while riding in it by grabbing the keys out of the ignition and throwing them out the window.
I know it's WAAAAY LATE but....
I think a lot of people are considering it, including Aunt Harriet.
It was a very different time. The Nazis and Friends vs America and the Good Guys black and white narrative was not used by the media when it came to 9/11 for lots of reasons, including justifiable fears about hate crimes against ordinary US Muslims. During WWII, Japanese Americans were put into camps. We were not going to do that again. I remember comics artists were talking about doing a Batman comic about him fighting the Taliban, but everyone except Frank Miller decided it wouldn’t work. Google “Holy Terror” to see how that turned out.
I need to read more about this guy cause that’s a great story. I wonder if Chris is stupid enough to do that.
There's also a documentary called The Devil and Daniel Johnston which is well worth a watch.
I don't know much about this guy, I'm going to check out the documentary. Thanks for the recommendation.
I see you also saw his documentary, yes Johnston was a real 1, he also tried to kill his manager with a pipe. He was schizophrenic, they characterize him as bipolar in the documentary and his family refuse to even admit it but that's why he was insane.
