Beany has a gift for a particular type of comedic writing that I have yet to find anywhere else. It's hard to describe what makes his work so different from other writers, but whatever it is, it's absolutely unique. There's an artistry to his descriptions of everyday scenarios and everyday human beings. At the risk of sounding pretentious, I'm going to try to describe it. If you find amateur art analysis a bit hard to stomach, look away immediately, because I'm about as skilled at dissecting media as a two year old is at dissecting a frog with a screwdriver.
Beany finds the unspoken absurdities of life and heightens them. Satire is nothing new, of course, but Beany seems to go right the core of whatever the topic is. I'm not sure if "speaks to the human condition" is the right term, but it certainly feels like it. It finds the strange, unspoken quirks of the human experience and hones in on them with a laser focus while rarely being cheesy or condescending.
Also, I really love the concept of the Blackout Wars and their veterans. It feels very reminiscent of how jobs are treated today: you're practically defined by your career, and yet the jobs are so personally meaningless to you that it's impossible to truly make it a part of your identity. A lot of people try, but it never feels like they really succeed.
Beany Tuesday is one of my favorite artists, and I look forward to seeing what he makes in the future.