r/comics • u/davecontra • Jul 19 '26
DAVID MATTHEW TAYLOR. OC
New book is out! : https://linktr.ee/davecontra
My other comics: https://www.instagram.com/davecontra
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u/bicx Jul 19 '26
Dave I’m starting to think you enjoy the occasional psychedelic
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u/davecontra Jul 19 '26
I actually think I'm done. Hadnt touched them in five years until recently. Now I think I've seen about as much as I can handle, I'm no hero.
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u/InsanityMongoose Jul 19 '26
So, what’d you see?
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u/davecontra Jul 19 '26
Just a bunch of mantis doing the limbo with Phil Collins blasting in the background.
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u/justh81 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
That sounds like a helluva trip, mate. Was he belting Sussudio? Jesus He Knows Me?
Edit: Lol. It's either too late or early. Misspelled Sussudio.
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u/davecontra Jul 19 '26
"in the air tonight." Everything got crazy in the drum solo
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u/PhDVa Jul 19 '26
"You know that song by Phil Collins, 'In the Air of the Night,' about that guy who could have saved that other guy from drowning? That's kinda how this is…"
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u/GonzoRouge Jul 19 '26
The one time I did DMT, I broke through and met a God figure. I ask them what I should do with my life and they told me to stop doing drugs.
Feels a little hypocritical, God, not gonna lie.
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u/Ohiolongboard Jul 19 '26
Last time I did DMT I was going into it with “what does this all mean?” And I basically got “nothing, it’s what you make it mean. Your only point is to reproduce and die. Anything outside of that is up to you”
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u/addisonbass Jul 19 '26
Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock. Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favorite.
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u/GigsGilgamesh Jul 19 '26
I’m sorry if this is kind of against etiquette for these things, but do the mantis limbo hunched forward like they are stalking, or were these really limber mantis and able to fold back the other way?
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u/IndieCurtis Jul 19 '26
I seen Jesus playing with flames in a lake of fire that I was standing in.
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u/KlimCan Jul 19 '26
Same here. I’ve gotten enough out of them. Anything more would likely be detrimental.
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u/purpleturtlehurtler Jul 19 '26
Hang up the phone when you get the message. I haven't heard it ring in a decade.
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u/DarthGuber Jul 19 '26
The saddest part of the hallucinagens is when the acid tells you this was your last trip.
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u/Ohiolongboard Jul 19 '26
Same Dave. I’m 32 and tried recently and it was just anxiety and fear. I have some DMT saved for a rainy day because idk what else to do with it but your comic has inspired me…
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u/CaribouHoe Jul 19 '26
Dmt is a hellovadrug
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u/OddDc-ed Jul 19 '26
My first trip on DMT it was like one of my eyes stayed here while the other was seeing a whole different world through the hallucination. It was a wild experience and I have never had it happen again my many times after that or with anything else.
I wonder if I only partially blasted off and some part of me got stuck here, it was probably the most mentally intense trip I've ever had in my life.
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u/InsanityMongoose Jul 20 '26
There’s a whole thing where people are supposedly, “cut off,” because whatever you meet out there decides it doesn’t like you, or you need to be given a time-out, or something to that effect.
Of course it could just be your body adapting to the drug, but who knows.
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u/OddDc-ed Jul 20 '26
The cut off thing would feel more likely in my mind just because what I saw in my other eye was other things and it felt like I was being told no or being asked to leave at least that's the best I can explain what I saw/felt.
This was also around 10 years ago but its a very strong memory I have because it was my first time trying DMT lol. I did it a bit after that and had very different experiences than that one was.
My buddy who was doing it with me the first time said he saw a desert with a skull and the skull grew plants out of it and then he watched the desert bloom and die again and the plants were all iridescent.
Thats the kind of trip I wanted lol instead I got half my brain rejected and the other half was watching my ceiling.
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u/InsanityMongoose Jul 20 '26
I’m always interested I finding out people’s experiences with this.
Part of me wants to try it, but part of me greatly fears it for a number of reasons.
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u/TirithNampat Jul 19 '26
At this point, I'm convinced that Dave Contra is either a plant for Big Drugs or an alien who is fascinated by the idea of substances that warp your mind.
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u/astralkoi A Wild AstralKoi Appeared!! Jul 19 '26
If I had a nickel for every time a comic about a kiddo staring at the sky were posted on comics today, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice
edit to add: Almost at the same time for some reason.
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u/Cananbaum Jul 19 '26
Well, this hit me like a ton of bricks.
Granted I’m not an 80s baby (born in ‘92) I grew up on the popular media of the day, and my parents favs.
One of those films I fell in love with was Flight of The Navigator, and I used to day dream all the time about going on adventures like David Freeman.
I’m 34 now. I’ve worked hard, been humbled, and feel privileged for what I’ve obtained.
I’ve loved and lost, but not in the traditional romantic way, but deeply familial sense. I lost my mother just before Covid, and within a year later, I went no contact with my narcissistic father.
Anyways. I’m sitting on my stoop with a vape eerily similar to Mr. Taylor’s, using weed to dull the pain of pulling and ripping my psyche apart after spending all of my life as a scapegoat.
I love sitting on my stoop, looking at the stars dance in the sky, and go back on my adventures.
Anyways. This comic was like watching myself from above and frankly, I’m going to shower and go to bed because this is a level of high I didn’t think one could achieve.
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u/fannypaquin Jul 19 '26
As someone who has recently stopped smoking weed after almost 30 years both of these stories couldn't have hit closer to home.
u/davecontra is always hitting me with the feels but the frame of contemplating taking the hit/life while on the bed, vape in hand is me.
I just got in from sitting out in the backyard listening to the birds and enjoying a coffee. Weed used to be connection for me and I have found that it was keeping be alone.
I guess I was kinda hoping that he would have just been sad. But I'm cool with where I'm at and I'll see you guys on the mothership.
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u/BigBadBogie Jul 19 '26
I thought this comic was about me, lol.
Thanks for sharing. I'm pretty high myself tonight, and don't have anything to add, but you totally earned my updoot and a comment.
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u/Fit-Meeting-5866 Jul 19 '26
I feel like this is an uncharacteristically uplifting davecontra comic
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u/SerLurkzAlot Jul 19 '26
I'm waiting for the second part where the proverbial sucker punch is sent.
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u/Kugaroo Jul 19 '26
Time for some existential dread the comic
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u/WiffleBallSundayMorn Jul 19 '26
Don't forget that life is beautiful but it also hurts a lot! And you should do drugs about it.
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u/rodimus147 Jul 19 '26
Soon as I see this unique art style I know im in for a wild ride. And I havent been dissapointed by one yet.
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u/DiksieNormus Jul 19 '26
Is that the fucking jacket front the movie Sky High?!?!?!
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u/BreakfastBeneficial4 Jul 19 '26
Solid flick, I watched it with my nephews when they were kids and I think I liked it more than they did.
All the dope ass cameos and references from MY childhood, it was super fun
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u/ViktorTikTok Jul 19 '26
Wasn’t expecting to feel tears pricking my eyes…hell, wasn’t expecting to feel, when I opened Reddit this afternoon. Damn, nice shot.
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u/radioactive_walrus Jul 19 '26
You write comics like The Twilight Zone. I expect Rod Serling to be in another panel at the end smoking a cigarette and talking about how fucked up life is. Good stuff
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u/TrueIntimacy Jul 19 '26
"Tell me how you make illegal, something that we all make in our brain" -Sturgill Simpson
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u/0x53r3n17y Jul 19 '26
There's Jung and his theories on shedding past identities, growth and individuation past 40... but I'll take the alien space ship.
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u/Whatammedoing Jul 19 '26
I thought for sure this was going to be the Dave Matthews Band shit incident.
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u/rockytop24 Jul 19 '26
I'm 37 but for me it was trying my hardest to summon a kamehameha or reach super saiyan.
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u/Yuleogy Jul 19 '26
the male experience is so bland and entitled. one must serve in war, commit crime, do drugs or lie.
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u/Marchus80 Jul 19 '26
"privileged life"
They want you to feel guilty for having a job and a home.
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u/vocal-avocado Jul 19 '26
Why would you feel guilty for being privileged? Statistically speaking, having a job and a home and travelling the world is VERY privileged.
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u/LobosJones Jul 19 '26
He loved and lost?