It's clear that, in hindsight, Sleepy is unlikely to add depth or nuance to Vi, for example. It's long been clear to me that she's evil "just because," but it would be interesting to learn more about Aunt Carmilla and her Tea Club. Because for now, as Evelina herself noted (which is very ironic, as this can easily be projected onto the entire Saga as a whole) - despite all the pathos and mystery with all these covens and so on, it all really does look like a bunch of ladies over 40, playing with their permissiveness, who just love to fuck without restraint. This may be a good thing overall, but if Sleepy originally intended this to be the case, it still begs the question: was there any point in focusing on the story at all? Perhaps this is another reason to think.
If I could, I would give your post 5 likes! But unfortunately, I can only put 1.
In just one post, you've formalized everything that I've been talking about for so long on this forum...
I honestly don't hope that Sleepy will have time to answer these questions, for the last 3 comics that he has left to draw in this universe.
You've made a good point: if Carmilla's tea club turns out to be just a gathering of rich ladies suffering from money and hedonism...
for me, this will be the biggest facup of Sleepy...
I don't understand the "too dark stuff either", I've said this before, not because his stories aren't dark, they are, but because they aren't any darker now than they were in the past. I mean one of his earlier stories is about Evie and Vi roofing a girl and spending an entire night raping her, then they lie to her saying she did all that willingly when she wakes up with no memory, and later on they roofie both the boyfriend and her and spend another night raping both of them now. How is that not dark?
He says his earlier stuff was lighthearted and fun, no they weren’t, Evie and Vi do have fun and crack jokes and are overall silly, but that does not make any of what happen in any of his stories lighthearted, if anything it makes it even darker since the duo is always completely remorseless and don't give a damn about their victims.
And no one says that the early works were "easy" in terms of what was done on the pages of these works.
It's just that in certain early works, all the consequences for the victims of the "Bitch Tandem" ended with a sore head and a sore ass.
Without further consequences.
But with the advent of "Meanwhile In The Dungeon", everything changed...
Then they began to demonstrate the most severe psychological breakdown of a person.
Locking a girl in a drawer for a day or more. (Country Girl)
Forcibly detaining a person in inhumane conditions for more than a year (Country Girl)
The destruction of the human psyche. Turning into a Sex-obsessed Animal (Pam)
Selling people in the slave market. (Josie)
The destruction of human life, to create a personal slave. (Kayla)
And if we remember about Leopold...
Do you feel the difference? Between what's going on at Roofie Colada and everything after that?
Everything has long grown out of the concept of sexual bdsm, into the brutal torture of people...
Sleepy himself admitted that he no longer likes Evelyn and Violet, that he loses empathy for them.
