If you ever have any sympathy for any characters, there are some moments:
- The Depressing Comic Week ones, when they don't cross the line back into being funny (in a horrible and twisted way).
- This one in particular.
- Or this one.
- Or this one. Bordering on Nightmare Fuel and, as one comment notes, Fridge Horror.
- Or this one.
- If you spend a lot of time reading webcomics, this one is particularly wrenching.
- especially this one.
- So, it's daddy's first day as a policeman...
- This one, especially the fourth panel.
- There's nothing worse than too late.
- A man confronts his deceased father.
- This one would have been depressing on its own, but at the end it provides another depressing twist.
- They've even made a book of these.
- This one in particular.
- These comics are like a prison...
- Terrible things can happen to those who are young.
- Two lessons: Not every child screaming in a store is a spoiled brat… some are just crying out for help without words when overwhelmed. Also, love does not need to be outwardly expressed to be real.
- Those vultures aren't preying...
- Poor Creepy Steve...Creepy Steve: What did I say...?
- However, it's subverted due to the file name.note
- In late August 2017, Kris began a series of comics (starting here and ending here) revolving around a man named Jim discovering that his son is the result of an affair with his wife. Understandably shocked, he runs off and plans to off himself after drowning his sorrows and settling in a motel, but after seeing a family of ducks with a squirrel in the middle, he decides not to. The story ends with Jim divorcing his wife and getting the hard parts out of the way, and returning to his son for a heartfelt reunion. Nope. The second stack of panels in the ending is a Dying Dream as Jim bleeds out from self-inflicted wounds in the motel, as seen in the secret comic embedded in the final panel. At the top of that comic is another hidden comic... except, it's the first comic of Depressing Comic Week 9.◊ As in, the one where the kid talks to his dead father about what happened after, which is also by Kris.
- Delving into your friend's sex life has never been more heart-wrenching.
- "Hey, this is Tim. Can't get to the phone right now."
- Someday...
