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Old 07-18-2005, 12:38 AM   #7
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Okay, this looks like a comic that tries to take advantage of 'random' humour; essentially you make something so incredibly bad it becomes funny, wherein the comic itself in a metaphysical sense becomes it's own joke. Well, that sort of thing is hard to pull off; you need a hyperbolic amount of terrible in order to make it funny. This is... just a string of pointless and badly joined sprites in an arbitrary grid. Much like how a random string of numbers aren't funny, this isn't funny. All this comic serves to do is imply that the author is, like, seven years old; an author who does not think further than one panel ahead when making the strip on-the-fly.

Reading this, though, reminds me of when I was younger, and I tried to make something funny on paper. I was unable to conceive of ways to let my audience see what I saw in my mind, essentially know what I knew to be funny, and thus the writing became an incomprehensible mess. I don't know where I picked up whatever skill I have now (maybe school wasn't just a daycare centre after all?), but I'm glad I have it.

As an aside, this comic reminds me of How Not to Run a Comic. I haven't the faintest idea why.
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