A Comic About Work and Identity

Is this good? Do people like this? Or is it just some hacky "eat-pray-love for failsons" type of thing? Let me know. People seemed to enjoy the other more personal comics I've made, but I still feel like this one isn't as good as the "comic about making meaningful art", which has a stronger core topic and tighter jokes. This one is a little more slice-of-life, and is so lengthy that I found it hard to cram jokes in as thoroughly as in some previous comics. Still, there are some good ones in there, and I tried some new fun stuff with the art. 

There is maybe a little bit of context missing here which might flesh out the comic a bit more, while also revealing my own personal biases and privileges, which is that I grew up fairly lower-upper-middle class; both parents went to Grad school, all siblings attended college, etc. As such, there was always an unspoken expectation among family and family friends that I would do something worthwhile, career-wise. Not high-paying, necessarily, but something that made use of the privileges I had been given, to go to college, receive career advice from well-off acquaintances of my parents, etc. My parents are both very nice, and would never in a million years say that I'm wasting my life-- but about every week since I moved away from home my mother would call or text with some light "suggestions" for job ideas. As the years passed by, she started to get a little more actively worried about what I was doing with my life, talking about how much "potential" I have, (the "positive" way of telling someone they're currently a failure.) I had to get her off my back by telling her about the comics, which, of course, i can also basically never show her because almost every one contains some awful sex joke. (Again, though, love my family.) 

A few little references for the sharp-eyed:

-The back patch in page 3 is based on the No Love Deep Web album cover

-The final form on page 8 is a Baki the Grappler reference, referring to the title of "unchained" given to certain members of a maximum security prison who could break out anytime they wanted to, but don't for some reason. 

-The background from page 11 is from the iconic "Homeless Guy eats Crap" youtube video

-The "art" on page 13 is the album cover for Blood Visions by Jay Reatard, one of the few musical albums in the official Beany Tuesday canon, and the "romance" frame is of course "The Dud" from the Simpsons. How many did you notice?