it’s a good life, if you don’t weaken
Seth’s story is also one of discontentment, nostalgia haunts It’s a Good Life. Panels of wordless street scenes and landscapes brilliantly show the passing of time as Seth, an out-of-time curmudgeon, longs for a bygone era. Under the cloud of “a vague depression”, he is disillusioned with modern culture (a large part of his time is spent in museums and old, run-down neighbourhoods): “I look forward to the future with nothing but dread. Things are getting worse and worse every year. As awful as things are right now, I’d be more than happy if the world would stay relatively like this until I die. I can’t face the next fifty years.”
By Susan Tomaselli.