These were their words:
Blondie: We used to live there. Now it’s a gravel pit!
Andy Capp: We once worshiped god. Now we are forced to worship death.
Orphan Annie: We never had to buy any of this!
Li’l Abner: We survived on our own then they took over and sold us our own land!
The Despondent were formed as The Petty Conspiracy Corporation came to power. The world had become a cartoon of reality and so The Despondent took on literary allusions of comic strips.