What We Want

Alex Solis draws the characters we know as if they’d actually lived here. Darth Vader, Superman, Mickey Mouse—all of them fed on the cheap burgers and ice cream and endless cupcakes that are everywhere, living the life that real abundance offers. Not the heroic ideal. The real thing.

The joke is obvious, which is why it lands. We’re in a place where bad food is everywhere and cheap and designed to taste incredible, and the gap between these perfect bodies and what exists is pretty funny. Solis just drew what was already there.

It’s not cruel. He’s not mocking fat people. He’s showing these figures in a real world, with real food, no bullshit. This is what happens when you stop resisting. And that’s somehow gentler than all the aspiration.

I like that it sits between satire and something genuine. You’re laughing at the contrast—perfect design meeting round body—but there’s also something true in it. These icons in a world with real abundance. Not the fantasy version. Just what’s there.