Again, I must warn of spoilers, this time, they’ll appear after the image. If you like, you can start out by just reading Andrew Drilon’s What the Cigarette Said, and maybe return later to read this post.
When your cigarette starts talking to you about ancient spirits living in the city and you are all alone in a dark room, don’t you think it’s time to quit? Or would you believe and heed the cigarette?
The protagonist from Andrew Drilon’s webcomic - What the Cigarette Said - does the latter. Bereaved of his love, trying to return to normality, he suddenly relapses, hallucinates and finally loses it. Or is there truly a spirit talking to him through the cigarette? - What the Cigarette Said is inconclusive; leaving its readers in hesitation.
The main character, however, (perhaps because of the comic’s relative brevity) seems unaffected by this ambiguity, wandering off into whatever we as readers eventually decide is the fact: insanity or Elysium.
I realize this post might look as if I were lambasting the comic because of its middle-of-the-road ending, but in fact I’m not. In fact, I like it. I like being left in hesitation.
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