Evan Dorkin's Dork comics are so crammed with jokes and incident, there's always something to pick up on. And as much fun as things like Milk and Cheese and The Murder Family can be, it's the shorter autobiographical pieces - like the story of his time as an unrepentant soda thief, or the whole gut-punch of Dork #7 - that contain the shiniest moments of wisdom.
Look at his short piece on how to get your ass kicked, taking some proper childhood trauma of bullying and pain, and making loads of dumb jokes out of it. Right at the end, he relates an unfortunate experience where he says exactly the wrong thing on a school bus, and everybody kicks the absolute shit out of him.
And towards the end of this beating, he sees a cute girl, and thinks that she will show mercy, and she kicks him in the fucking face.
I think about that part a lot. I'm as guilty as anybody at judging people by their appearances, and have had my heart broken by all sorts of beautiful girls who never knew I existed, but at least I've never been kicked in the fucking face by any of them. I don't doubt that they could have.
The lesson learned: Beautiful people will kick you in the fucking face just as much as ugly people will.
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