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Alvin Juano is back on Bored Panda with some new, hilarious comics full of dark humor and unexpected twists. His comics are very popular, with 500k followers on Instagram and 125k likes on Facebook. People seem to love the way the artist shows life and its dark sides. Some, perhaps, even relate to the comics.

The art itself is simple, but the ideas behind it are portrayed in a creative and fun way. The hero of the comics is a simple guy with a pessimistic outlook on life, a condescending dog, and strange friends.

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Colin L
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I decided to take a tourist tour of the city I've lived in for 25 years... I learned a surprising amount of stuff.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so true. I live in one on the most famous places in Ireland, Sligo. Right next to the burial place of the poet WB Yeats and the mountain Ben Bulben. The area where I live has many beaches popular with surfers and we get tens of thousands of tourists here every year well except this year. And every year I talk to a tourist who has been to a place near my home that I have never been to before despite the fact I have lived here for over 30 years.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've met someone who is living 30km from one of the most famous national parks and has never been... He was studying wildlife biology to boot.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I found that when I moved to someplace new if I didn't go see "the sights" within the first 6 months I would never go see them.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You get so used to everything they seem normal. So when a tourist shows them in a new child-like wonder they can seem different.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ROFLMAO this reminds me of my first face to face date with my husband. We had met online I was in Western NY and grew up an hour from Niagara Falls so to me it was no big deal. My husband grew up in Cairo so I really couldn't understand why he wanted to go to Niagara Falls on the weekend we met face to face LOL Fast Forward 20 years and I too our then 10 year old to Niagara Falls for the first time (we live in Illinois) and I was reminded how impressive it really is.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, the borders are closed for many countries, it´s time to explore your homeland :-)

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Doctors: These vaccines should fight corona virus! Anti-Virusers: What the **** are these for?

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same for me in Norway ;v;. Heck we were going for a trip around our country to find places my parents went as kids but you know... virus.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

also, when you wake from a coma 200 years later and someone shows you a place called "The Unknkown"

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good to open your eyes from time to time! Ever few years 8blike to look at the travel guides for our area so I don't miss things. I like to travel but it is kind of sad all the things nearby that people miss because they think they have to travel to see anything amazing.

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Alvin Juano is a 25-year-old artist that lives in Jakarta, Indonesia. He started the The Square Comics in 2014 because he wasn't doing so well in school. He needed something to distract him and lift his spiritts up, so he started doing these short, funny and dark comics. 

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But in real life, he can not have kids if he doesn't want to. Nobody 'tells' their son to give them a grandchild.

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On a earlier interview on Bored Panda Alvin shared that he comes up with material before he goes to bed. He thinks of subjects that might be funny and writes them down, the next day he picks the ones he likes and creates the comics.

We have many comics here on Bored Panda. Some are about dinosaurs dealing with mental health issues, some about funny situations and fails, and even some sweet ones about an adorable alligator and his best friends. Check these comics out and maybe you will like them!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

HAHAHAHHA! WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY!!!!HHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA- okay, i'm done.

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What do you think of these comics? Do you relate to them? Tell us in the comments and vote for your favorite ones! Don't forget to go show some love to the artist on his social media and follow him for more dark humor comics! If you want to see his earlier post, click here!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

but then he wouldn't exist to destroy the marriage, so he would exist, and he would make himself not exist, but then he wouldn't exist so he couldn't make himself not exist, so he would exist so he couldn't not make himself not exist, but then since he doesn't exist, he can't not not make himself not exist anymore.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"i'M TALLER!" "well i'm cuter!" "HOW DOES THAT EVEN-" "people like dogs, not giraffes!"

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

so true i can never fall asleep with the cicadas outside my window going like BZZZZZ

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I laughed out loud in my french class u guys because of this one

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this is buggy buggy says hi buggy fly high clap for buggy oops buggy die

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Last cube: I thought that was the dog's face... and then I realized that it was walking away.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

everyone says, try to stand out, but then people stand out in the same way and it goes back

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah parents! my generation will stand up for me! social media: psh!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

that's like how i used to draw people. I would spend way too much time on the face and hope people wouldn't look at the rest!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"What's the difference between falling and flying if you never hit bottom?"

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me thinking it was the dog not realizing the dog rather the boy to be dead by a car crash than him alive hugging him

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

that's what I've been doing through my life so far. I've gotten away from pornography, cutting up and down my arm, listening to demonic s**t because I thought that it would make me feel better, and I'm still dealing with stuff and living in constant fear that I'll fall back down to where I was. I live in a Christian home, and thank god that my father is understanding and my mother has already been through an abusive family and plenty of s**t. I'm only thirteen and feel the pressure of the sexuality ordeal and all the lgbtq crap. I was sexually active at six and other years of my life, and have put myself through a lot to try to get out of the lie that i live. My message to all you people is to keep-

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

get this all new shark repellent, at the wonderful cost of any friend you won't have

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