Live with Yourself! (LWY) is a science fictioncomedywebtoon series written and drawn by Andrew "Shen" Tsyaston and David J. Catman.[a] Initially created by the former before passing creative control to the latter, it follows computer support worker Todd as he is split into four versions of himself (Todd, Tomo, Oldie, and Babs) from different times following a mad science experiment gone-wrong, who he becomes roommates with, his three older selves raising his younger self while dealing with both slice-of-life shenanigans and a serialised plot involving a future time civil war.
Released to the webtoon platform WEBTOON, later made available to read via WEBTOON Canvas (i.e. making a free WEBTOON account and logging in), it was published across 542 episodes from January 1, 2017 to March 31, 2024. Live with Yourself! received a positive critical reception, being nominating for the 2023 Ringo Award for Best Humor Webcomic.
Plot
Live with Yourself! is a science fictioncomedy comic series. It follows Todd, a computer support worker, becomes split into four versions of himself from different times following a mad science experiment gone-wrong. Todd finds himself living with Tomo, the not-too-distant future of Todd; Oldie, a much older incarnation; and Babs, his baby self. Updated once a week, digitally available to read via the WEBTOONmobile application, it was initially written and drawn by Andrew "Shen" Tsyaston, before David J. Catman took over as illustrator in 2019. Catman became the official writer in 2020.[2][3][4][5]
The series is divided into divided into three major storylines:
Season 1: Dynamite with a Lazer Beam, Is This The Real Life?, Nothing Really Matters, Somebody, Somebody, Can't Get No Relief, Can Barely Stand on My Feet, I Need No Sympathy, Keep Losing My Beat, Recommended at the Price, A Bult-In Remedy, Can Barely Stand on my Feet, Ain't Gonna Face No Defeat, Fridays I go Painting in the Louvre, Little High, Little Low, Caught in a Landslide, You're my sunshine, Lazing on a Sunday, Life Had Just Begun, Tomorrow Gets Me Higher, Want to Try, Just a Poor Boy, Drive You Wild, I Sometimes Wish I'd, Come Together, For You Blue, We Can Work It Out, Let It Be, Yesterday, Killer Queen, Big Disgrace (1), Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind, Anytime, Here We Are, Blood on Your Face, Big Disgrace (2), It's a Hard Life, A Kind of Magic, AND WE'RE BACK, Hold It Down, Sunshine in a Bag, Tomorrow Comes Today, New Horizon, Like a Flashback, Days I Try to Lose, Don't Pull Me Down, Work It Out, They Might Promise You, That the River Ain't Deep, You've Got to Press It On You, You Just Think It, Easy Does It, Made with Plastic Power, Gravity, Ain't Got a Chance, Child-Like in Nature, The Camera Won't Let Me Go, Panoramic View, Lies Become Reality, O Green World, Never Did No Harm, Work It Out, Feel Like You Were There, Peace-Loving Decoy, Ready for Retaliation, A Brand New Day, A Brand New Day, Useless, But Not For Long, Take You Deeper, No Loose Ends, Nothing to See Me Down, Sleep Glow, Kids With Guns, Easy Does It, Keeping My Groove On, Bring It Down, Just Me and My Mind, Try to Move, You Can Ride Away, Chicks and Dudes, The Future is Coming On, Keep Myself Tethered, Wrappers of Many Bite Sizes, I Come In Last, Not Quite, Super Fast, Ephemeral Style, In the Blink, The Way I Navigate, Light Sleeper, So He Can Advance, I Need Your Focus, Light of the Plasma Screens, Plastic Bags, Rules of the Trade, Broke Money, Plastic Beach, Sweetest Inspiration, Today is Golden, Last Living Souls, 100!!, Don't Get Lost in Heaven, Neon Lights, Prayed on the Immovable, Last To Leave, Voted Sugar-Coated, Momma's Homemade, Enjoy The Gritty Crunch, Get the Cool Shoeshine, The Swagga, Out of My Cage, Sit and Lose, Moving Up, Geared to Attack, The Happyfolk Were Blind, Can't Fight With Us, Push It, Something To Say, Clocks on the Wall, Talk to Watches on the Wrist, Shower My Habits, Chemical Load, Pretty Packages, Moments We Achieve, Take Us In, Coldest Man, Last Living Souls, Without a Heart, Relivery, Cooking with the Boys, Time Cops Preseprequel, The Statue in the Woods (two parts), Sike-Out, Surprise Me (two parts), Copycat Throwdown (four parts), The Perfect Hamburger (three parts), Reunion (three parts), Paranormalist (three parts), Guilty as Charged, Brain Blast (two parts), Garbage Day (two parts), Nurture (three parts), Parental Guidance (three parts), Sweet Treat, Power (six parts), Friendship (three parts), Big Money, Ethos (three parts), Pathos (three parts), Logos (three parts), Compulsive (four parts), Toasted (two parts), Cookies, Sleep Tight (five parts), Hold, Please, Spa Day with the Boys, Figments and Fantasies (nine parts), Hot Take, Tomorrow, Grow Faster, Faster (five parts), Daycare (two parts), Bring it Back, In the Red (three parts), Revolving Doors (three parts), In Time For Tea (four parts), Love You Madly (four parts), Dreams of Youth, Don't Stop Me Now (four parts), Blown Over (three parts), Time Waits for Nobody, Perceive With Your Mind (two parts), Liar, Liar (four parts), Erase the Memories (two parts), Word Goes Around (five parts), You Are My Medicine (two parts), What I Know Is Mine (three parts), Letters in the Sand (four parts), A Kind of Magic (three parts), No Time for Losers (four parts), Will to Carry On (two parts), Another One Gone (two parts), Strange Time (five parts), Good Company, Dog With a Bone, Somebody to Love (two parts), Two Steps Nearer (two parts), No Time for Doubt (three parts), Gotta Get Money (three parts), Together We'll Sail (three parts), Mystical Maybe (two parts), Make a Big Noise, Looking For Trouble (three parts), Three Wheels (three parts), Joy in Your Mind (four parts), 300!!, Some Kind of Madness, No Big Surprise (three parts), Time to Shine (five parts), My Fine Friend (two parts), Take You Deeper (four parts), Empty Spaces (two parts), Locks on the Gate (two parts), Spirit of the Mountain (three parts), Truth's Unwinding (two parts), Broken Pieces (two parts), Clean Machine (two parts), Having a Ball (three parts), Glitter Freeze (four parts), All to Blame (two parts), and Tumbling Down (three parts).
Season 2: Don't Look Back (three parts), Find a Place (two parts), Fool for You (two parts), Say It Right Now (two parts), Hard to Know (three parts), Wash the Clouds Away, Our Strange Divide (three parts), Ride or Die (two parts), Sure-Fire Desire (three parts), Closer Than This (three parts), Chained Myself to a Friend, Float On (two parts), My Complications (three parts), Stranger by the Minute (four parts), Hold Your Stage (four parts), Feel the Way I Want (four parts), Repair Yourself, Get What You Get (two parts), Tomorrow Gets Me Higher (three parts), Hold Me Like Gold (four parts), Carried Away (four parts), Take Me Out Tonight (two parts), 401, Intersecting Lines (four parts), Rhapsody (two parts), Won't Do Nothing (three parts), Dancing on the Box (two parts), Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Keep on Trying (three parts), Dirty Laundry (three parts), Happy Together (four parts), New Horizon (two parts), Vibe I'm Bringing (three parts), Voices on the Radio (three parts), Dreaming As We Move (two parts), Gone Away (three parts), Someone Else's Dream (two parts), Line on the Map (three parts), and Weather Every Winter Well.
Season 3: A Wonderful Sight (four parts), Open, Then Snap Shut (three parts), Ticket to Ride (four parts), New Gold, Good for You (four parts), Pulled Me Fragile (four parts), Infinite Pages (two parts), There Will Be Time (six parts), How Hard You Try (three parts), Still Standing (five parts), Fire It Up (two parts), Hot Pants (two parts), A Plan for Me (three parts), Complicated Friend (two parts), Glow in the Margins (four parts), The Storm Ahead (three parts), No Escapin' (five parts), 500!, Passed the Future (five parts), She Just Can't Lose (two parts), At the Movies, Turns to Dust (four parts), Side by Side (two parts), On The Line (five parts), Spark the TNT (two parts), World Wreckin' (four parts), Days Flip (three parts), Hold on Tight (three parts), Push It Real (three parts), Last Living Souls (three parts), Feel Good (four parts), and The Boys End Their WEBTOON.
Characters
Main characters
Todd: A happy go-lucky young man who doesn't take life seriously, known for wearing a green hoodie.
Tomo: The "Todd from tomorrow", with unkempt hair and stubble on his face. Known for wearing a blue hoodie, he is more bitter from always living the same day twice, unlike the continuously existing Todd.
Oldie: The elderly Todd from the distant future, who wears glasses and the colour yellow.
Babs: The infant Todd from the distant past, who has a pink baby blanket wrapped around himself. Having the power to age anything up, he can control his blanket as if a hand, with how he is raised for the day impacting the personalities of the others in their shared present.
Time Rebellion
Sophie: Todd's red-wearing girlfriend and a member of the Time Rebellion.
E6 and F5: Former members of the Time Council-turned-Time Rebellion members in a Todd-Tomo situation who are dating each other, much to Oldie's discomfort.
Chisel Dangerma: The leader of the Time Rebellion.
The Purple-haired-girl: The Time Rebellion's "tech-whizz".
Sarge: A high-ranking member of Time City and Sophie's adoptive father.
Supporting characters
Davian: The leader of the time-policing Time Bureau, who infiltrates the past.
Professor Fixit: Todd's ex-boss and ex-employee and a gay paranormal investigator.
Hattie: Todd's and Tomo's chaotic ex-girlfriend and a pink-wearing scam artist.
Lex Winsmore: Todd's uncle, who operated as the superheroMechoneko.
Bernard: An overweight blogger and Fixit's nemesis.
Reception
Critical reception
Multiversity Comics praised Live with Yourself! as a "a fascinating comic [that is] a very fun, wacky read",[6] noting it as "the definition of solid and consistent" with "jokes [that] practically write themselves",[6] while Comics Beat complimented Live with Yourself! as a "lighthearted webcomic [depicting] what it is like to deal with your own nonsense", describing the narrative as "funny, particularly sections with Babs [and] the sight gags and silliness".[7]
Lemmy World praised Live with Yourself! as a "mostly fluffy, goofy series [with a] premise and plotlines [that] can be somewhat heavy" making for "a worthwhile read"[8] while Webcomic Arts lauded the series' art for how "Shen has fantastic control over shape and color".[9]
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