Lark Comics turn the voices in your head into three pastel ghosts, and they are way too accurate. Created by the artist Larkness, these short strips follow a dark-haired young woman and the ghosts who never leave her side.
Victor wears antlers and chases every whim. Leon wears a bowler hat and worries about everything. Ulisses is a shaggy pink blob with no filter and some truly alarming ideas.
Together, they capture procrastination, impulse spending, overthinking and intrusive thoughts better than most self-help books. Here are 22 Lark Comics you will want to send to your group chat right now.
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The 22 Best Lark Comics by Larkness
1. We Deserve It: Victor vs. Your Bank Account
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Victor talks his way from a café coffee to new sneakers to a Caribbean trip, all because “we deserve it.” Leon finally hits the brakes with a truth every budget needs: deserving something doesn’t mean you can afford it.
2. Victor Quits the Internet, and Ulisses Has Concerns
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Victor throws away his phone and laptop to live a simple life in the woods. Ulisses keeps bringing up one small problem: mosquitoes. It’s a funny jab at every digital-detox daydream.
3. The Shortest Digital Detox Ever
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No phone, no internet, just a lawn chair and a summer breeze. Victor lasts about three panels before the calm turns into a red-alert craving for kitten videos.
4. Coffee With a Side of Regret
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A quiet pour-over coffee turns into a replay of every past mistake when Leon shows up. He can’t explain the connection, and he won’t stop talking about it either.
5. The Earworm That Won’t Quit
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Ulisses sings the same pop chorus for an entire week while she washes the dishes. The silence lasts exactly one panel, and then the song returns from a very unexpected voice.
6. Allergic to Work
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The whole crew is at the desk when Victor lets out a huge sneeze. His diagnosis is simple: he’s allergic to work. Two panels, zero shame, completely relatable.
7. Did You Lock the Door?
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Leon wakes her up in the middle of the night to check the front door. It’s locked, of course. Look closely at the last panel, though: the window is wide open.
8. The Intrusive Thought Twitch
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A calm study session goes sideways when Ulisses whispers a shocking idea. She does nothing, but her body twitches anyway, and her friend wants to know why.
9. Victor Reads Five Books at Once
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Victor claims he can read several books at the same time. Then he explains the plot, and Elizabeth Bennet, Earthsea, Foucault and a cast of robots all collide in one sentence.
10. Who Put the Charger in the Fridge?
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She tears the apartment apart looking for her phone charger. The culprit is Victor, who hid it in the fridge for one reason only: to spice up life.
11. I Love Gardening (the Plant Did Not Survive)
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Ulisses waters his plant happily until he spots one tiny bug. One skipped panel later, the pot is on fire, and his only comment is “I tried.”
12. Three Ghosts vs. The Iliad
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Victor reads The Iliad and feels like a genius. Leon reads it and feels dumb. Ulisses tosses it out the window. One hard book, three very familiar reactions.
13. The Origami Dragon Detour
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With a million tasks waiting, Victor suggests folding an origami dragon instead. Three hours later, she is stressed, behind schedule and the proud owner of one lumpy paper dragon.
14. Three Ghosts, One Fridge
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Ulisses opens a packed fridge and says there’s nothing to eat. Leon finds half a lemon and calls it dinner. Victor and the protagonist are too hyperfocused to eat at all.
15. Sunset Philosophy vs. Deadlines
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Victor wants to soak in a stunning pink sunset and reflect on life. Leon wants to get back to work. Victor demands another half hour, and Leon completely loses it.
16. Ulisses’ Darkest Confession
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Walking down a rainy street, Ulisses admits he’s afraid someone will push him in front of a car. When she says nobody would ever do that, his answer is not reassuring.
17. The Ceramics Phase
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Victor begs to learn ceramics until she pays for the class. One clay-covered session later, he decides he doesn’t like it, then asks why she ever listens to him.
18. The Perfect Reply, Years Too Late
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Leon has finally written the perfect comeback for her boss. There’s just one problem: she left that job years ago. He reads it to her anyway.
19. Wrong Lyrics, Full Volume
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Ulisses sings a Spanish song while she cooks, and every lyric is slightly wrong. She tells him to stop. He does, for exactly one panel.
20. Victor Discovers Shakespeare
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Victor picks up the speaking style of every book he reads, so after Shakespeare, every sentence turns theatrical. Leon begs him to stop, and Ulisses quietly starts copying him.
21. Scream Away the Cringe
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Leon starts replaying an embarrassing memory, so she screams over him at full volume. The neighbors might hear, but she doesn’t care one bit.
22. At Least It’s Not Your Old Job
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An awful, rainy day turns into rainbows and birdsong after one reminder from Ulisses: she doesn’t work at her old job anymore. It’s the most wholesome strip in the bunch.
