Writhe and Shine - Baby Bats vs Elder Goths (comic,fan edit)

Writhe and Shine makes fun of the alternative underground scene from the inside and shows us that no matter how much black we wear or how moody we seem, we can still laugh at ourselves. Running off and on since 1998, it has been compared to The Addams Family and Cheers. The series follows a group of friends that work at and run The Bastille, the only Goth club in the historic and iconic city of New Orleans.

• https://www.patreon.com/tritthardt/about

This strip is from the mid-2010s, you can read their comic strip archive for more. Looks like the artist/writer eventually shifted to other work, though.

More info about the artist:

• http://www.roberttritthardt.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/roberttritthardt/

edit notes

Original:

• shifted panels from 1x2 to 2x1. added black background, title, and URL
• the original is an example of a gag that takes a second or two to process before it lands. i.e. figuring out that the top person is a baby bat and the bottom person is an elder goth. it only takes a second or two, but it's distracting, so I added captions to make it obvious which was which.
• edit: shrunk and rearranged the titles