From my take on it, it seems that the boy is the man.
I'm assuming the boy lived a depressed life because he relied solely on his entertainment as a source of happiness but eventually realizes how empty he is inside and decides to end it.
tfw you notice:
- there's a kitten resting in the guys hood, and it's reflected in the window of the metro
- his chest armor is really just a broken, children-sized toilet seat
- the figure on his backpack is wearing Gabriel's armor, one of the characters of the artist this artstyle is based upon
- the hobo's wearing crocs
- The two funny newspaper articles, and the third one that's about the attackers you're looking at
- the word 'fragile' on the cardboard leg armor to emphasize the hobo's helplessness
- the he-man fanny pack say what you want, but this guy's really asking for it
- The hearts carved into the machete (I hope this doesn't imply what I think it implies)
- the hobo's wearing three watches
- The fact that he's holding a bobba Fett figurine, who is a bounty hunter, the references to Gabriel, who is also a bounty hunter, and the cardboard sign that says 'Will bounty hunt for food' imply he had a fantasy of becoming some awesome superhero
- Every visible knuckle is bruised
Now that's some ******* dedication to detail. This guy made redesigns of the work of Daniel LuVisi, who made Last Man Standing, pic related.
If I recall correctly, that's just how the original artist (Dan Luvisi, not Joel Kilpatrick) draws the cigarets for all his characters. Makes him stand out from the crowd.
From what I know, this guy started out on DeviantArt. He made some cool **** , so I started following him danluvisiart.deviantart.com. Then he started drawing all these really cool characters like Gabriel, and unified them all into a comic called Last Man Standing. I'm pretty sure you can find all you need to know about LMS there on his DeviantArt, but I haven't been there since the furry influx of a few years ago I swear , so I'm not quite sure.
The artist of this image, Kilpatrick, does redesigns and fan art of characters from Last Man Standing which is the owned/written/designed by Dan Luvisi.
I believe LMS was originally going to be a comic book series but that may have been cancelled as the first book was released about 4 years ago with nothing further happening.
Also: The Boba Fett toy has a broken left hand and right leg, and the hobo has a bandaged left hand and a cane resting on his right side (implying a bad right leg). This makes the hobo exactly like the Boba Fett.
Exactly, I dunno if I'm just glass-half-full or something but hes got an awful lot of tally marks, and he doesn't look that scared, more annoyed. They're pepsi for sure
Few more you may have missed.
-Wolverine figurine also references Gabriel in his regenerative ability
-cat in the hood looks similar to Gizmo, another of the characters from LMS
-guy reading the paper is a reference to the antagonist of the universe in being called Dante and having the same forehead tattoo
-trademark sweets/drugs leaking out of the tramps backpack
-machete guy is called Marcus, a reference to the serial killer Abaddon (real name Marcus) who uses a machete
-cardboard on the side of the tramp's helmet is drawn to look like Gabriel's helmet in profile
-smallest newspaper headline reads 'I hope you don't read this because I couldn't think of a title'
If you read the backstory of this character, he was built to withstand almost anything. He is made to be a super soldier type of character. The recoil of those guns would be of minimal concern to Gabriel.
Pretty sure that's supposed to be the hobo in the picture, just that who he wants to be. This guy has tally marks on his armour too and the sign in the original picture said "will bounty hunt for food." It would explain why he has skittles too hes still child like, and this guy is also on the hobos bag.
You leave him alone, you assholes! He put a lot of work into that costume and he just wants to be left alone to play with his toys! And... and... why the hell is this making me so sad...
i think it's like our world is becoming a society of victims, there's an old man stuck in his childhood being preyed upon by bullies nobody cares to stop
Uhm no? That man is a ******* S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and he is getting cheeki breeki iv damki by some pleabian bandits. He probably has 95% rupture resistance from artifacts so that's why he's just chilling and minding his own ******* business playing with toys, he know's he'll take near 0 damage from their tier 1 weapons if they make the fatal mistake to attack him.
This makes me feel awful because I work in a psych hospital.
I see guys like this every day.
They don't want to be like they are. They have no choice. They barely know what's happening around them.
When I look at this, I see not only the adult patients we have, but the child and adolescent patients who are spiraling down to becoming the next generation of this guy. I see a whole psych hospital's worth of suffering people in this one fictional old man's eyes.
And we know what's going to happen. It won't be as bad as it looks, maybe. I don't think he'll die. They'll beat the **** out of him and break his toys and leave him in a gutter somewhere. And he'll be physically alright.
But what he has, we know it's ALL he has. We know it's the shadows of the only hero he has ever believed in or hoped he could be. And he will continue to believe in his hero right up until the very end.
and I think we relate because we all would much rather be the homeless man than be the men surrounding him. We know that the bad guys will win this fight. But we'd all still choose to be the homeless guy. Because he is innocent.
Something none of us can claim to be anymore.
I like to imagine that he's more capable than we're led to believe. The next panel is him exiting the train with 4 dead, bloodied bodies. That's definitely gonna happen, he's a fighter.
Posting as anon to not feel like an attention whore.
Over the past few weeks I've been feeling like **** for no apparent reason. Depression that comes and goes. Maybe lack of a social life. Maybe I'm just not eating regularly or maybe I just have a vitamin deficit. Basically, all of a sudden I just feel like crying. I feel like crying, and when I'm about to shed a tear, I just quit trying and carry on with whatever I was doing.
All I want to say is that this is how I felt right now, and then I saw this image. I looked at it, and I managed to finally shed one after a few weeks. Simply felt like an accomplishment.
It's a good piece of art, and a quality feel, is all I want to say.
Sometimes just crying can be as good as therapy. I'm not saying to force it, just don't think less of yourself from it or try to avoid it. It is a triumph to express yourself even if no one sees it.
That ************ is wearing combat armor with crocs and is playing with action figures like he doesn't see these punk ass bitches around him. You willing to take the chance that's not an assassin's cane and he's got max strength and melee perks? Nah, didn't think so. So sit yo bitch ass down.
What if....
...What if that hobo is actually a bounty hunter and someone put out a hit on the gang as because of their little rampage? Lord knows his samurai buddy aint nothing to **** with