The Comic "The Darkess Outside Night": Did Anyone Get It?
Translated from Chinese by Claude. Read the original
To be honest, when I first got the book and flipped through it, I just couldn’t make sense of the comic The Darkess Outside Night.
Later, meaning today, I woke up, grabbed the book from beside the bed, flipped through it again, and carefully studied every drawing in Chorus (Han Han’s magazine). Finally, when I got to the comic at the end, The Darkess Outside Night, I read it through once and at last I understood.
The meaning is actually simple. It seems to be a little sprite trapped in a bottle. To break out of the bottle and feel the sunlight outside, it slams into the wall of the bottle again and again, until finally, with one last violent crash, it dies with blood splattered everywhere. The bottle, lying next to a pile of garbage, shakes twice, and then everything goes still…
Very simple~ very human imagery~
Little people often reveal big truths. Don’t give up, don’t lose heart, fight with everything you have, and even if it leaves you bloody and broken, charge forward anyway. Just like the words “My Struggle” in the last panel of this comic. It isn’t only his struggle. All of us should have this kind of fighting spirit!
The original is in color. Below is the scanned version going around online.
Han Han’s Chorus is pretty good~ If you’re interested, please support Han Han by buying his book~
Disclaimer: I’m a Han Han fan and I support legit copies. I bought my own copy. The scanned version above has nothing to do with me.