This is exactly the story of Buzz Aldrin. After experiencing the pinnacle of human achievement, he went into a depression spiral that lasted many years.
There are a very few SMBCs that use the gif format, so maybe that's why the site does it. I've been posting by hand so haven't bothered to do any conversion, but maybe if I script it I can throw in a conversion to png or webp
Weird. Reason I asked was because it broke my app, which doesn't support both zooming in and scrolling around while zoomed. Didn't realise that's the original format.
It's a genre that's mostly popular in China, Korea, and Japan, about martial artists who 'cultivate' their inner chi to become superhumans. Not just comics, written novels exist as well.