Just a note to the Internet world:

If my blog and/or comics ever get famous, then surely people will erroneously assume that they are autobiographical and totally serious.

You should know, however, that my author Ruji is channeling me—Don Depresso, a fictional character—in all of this, and she doesn’t necessarily agree with what I say and do.

In particular, she doesn’t think it’s a good idea to haphazardly use drugs like I do, even though drug use appears over and over again in the comics. She keeps telling me to be conscious about what goes into my body, and since the early comics from 2012 to 2013 with all the silly drug jokes are the ones that keep getting reblogged, she’s now insisting that I post this disclaimer thing so as not to negatively influence young people.

I, Don Depresso, am the voice of pure mania sans reason for the Age of Aquarius. I feel that I am needed here as an independent entity to shamelessly represent the sorrowful depths to which many people have plummeted in this mad world, and to further represent to these people that there will always be a spark of hope for our mad world no matter how bad it gets.

Indeed, many are creating tolerable lives for themselves through the use of mind-altering substances both prescribed and illicit, and this trend can’t be ignored. Why do people feel the need to numb out or otherwise alter their chemistry in the first place? Neither my author nor I believe that drug users deserve to be shamed, no matter what the substance of choice. We all live in a seriously batshit-crazy world right now, and I think laughter is one of the best medicines to offset the wide variety of self-destructive coping mechanisms in use today.

So readers: Please stay strong and healthy, and feel free to find comfort in relating to my problems if you already have them, but please don’t follow my example!

Sincerely and perpetually blurring the lines between fact and fiction for a perceived higher purpose,

Don Depresso