Seeing this reflected in current Max with this decision to return to her Chloe but abandon her friends in this universe brings a lot of those questions back in her mind. That’s why that choice is so divisive amongst fans because it brings into question morality and split decision-making skills and what we view as selfish or not. But on the micro-scale, Chloe is Max’s best friend, who she just reunited with, and her lover in the continuity of this comic series. Do you go with Chloe and let Arcadia Bay drown, or do you let Chloe die and save all of Arcadia Bay from certain death? While on the macro scale, you can see that the obvious choice is the one that saves more lives. For instance, everyone remembers that last choice. Take the events of the original Life is Strange game. They are not mutually exclusive, and it is certainly not selfish. 2021.īut as Max has pointed out to her, you can simultaneously feel grief on a large and small scale. So, in great disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina or, in Max’s case, the loss of Arcadia Bay and her Chloe, the mere thought regarding the self becomes something to reject, something to abhor, because the victims deserve more sympathy and grief. It’s the paradoxical nature of the human mind we are hard-wired to care first and foremost about our survival but still feel like crap for doing it because we are taught that empathy for others is positive. But such grief is shared amongst a large group of people about something so large personal grief can be seen as selfish. Grief comes in many forms from a variety of sources. While there, she strikes up a small conversation with a random passerby that I think illuminates a big part of the Life is Strange franchise and a major theme of this comic in particular. Selfish Griefĭuring Life is Strange: Coming Home #2, Max has a moment where she visits the memorial moment for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. This is a job that requires a serious master of the art form, and they are pulling it off in a way that feels effortless.

Emma Vieceli and Claudia Leonardi are doing, quite frankly, an astounding job juggling so many characters, arcs, and plots weaving throughout two universes. Life is Strange: Coming Home #2 finishes out the doubled-sized issues of this arc and prepares us for the inevitable big climax of the series.

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