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[quote="legendaryBuffoon"]The cake one was a bit obvious. It feels like I've heard that joke several times before.[/quote]

Knowing Zach's tendency to reuse his own jokes, you probably have (I'm guessing it was a one-panel comic from 2010).

The cake one was a bit obvious. It feels like I've heard that joke several times before.

The "circle of life" one, I think, was intended to be a bit non-sequitur. A usually grand and profound subject such as "the circle of life" is intentionally reduced to a single aperture which provides life-giving nutrients to an old man.

The peter pan quote was supposed to be whimsical in context, the illogic in using stars for those sorts of directions was invoked and dismissed, because of magic. Then Zach made it literal, as emphasized in the votey.

[quote="Issoisso"]Where was the funny supposed to be?

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2547[/quote]That we were expecting a Kony joke after the first panel.

[quote="Sprinkles"]But it's a direct quote right? I'm not familiar enough with Peter Pan to be able to tell.[/quote]


I think it's a direct quote. I was operating under that assumption anyway. The thing is, even from a very literal interpretation I'm having trouble seeing why anyone would assume "second star to the right" means fly all the way to that star. If anything, I would think it means turn when you pass the second star, but that's also pretty meaningless, because there would have to be a lot fewer stars in the sky to work out something like that. There are also various other reasons this doesn't make sense, but I still wouldn't even think to imagine the instructions to be go out to space and fly to that star. I guess you could argue that's why it's funny, because it's not something you would immediately think, but to me it's why it just came across awkward.

I actually liked both the Peter Pan comic and the Circle of Life comic (even though I didn't quite get it). The Terrorist comic was lousy.

I like the stylized text coming out of Peter Pan's mouth

I don't know what you're talking about, graph jokes are clearly the highest form of humor imaginable.

I know we can all agree on one thing

Not one of them was a graph joke

[quote="Sprinkles"]The Peter Pan one told a joke through images and text. It was a good comic. I didn't laugh at it, but I think if Zach was putting out comics like this regularly, one of them would get me.

The dessert one was dreadful.

Circle of life, pretty okay too. We are all in agreement.[/quote]

Almost my exact opinion.

At least he tried to be funny in the Peter Pan one. I personally didn't find it too funny, but it was a joke and was creative. I didn't get Circle of Life so I don't really have an opinion on it. Dessert terrorist was really grasping at straws.

Circle of Life is win, if only because it's one panel, and that's what marks SMBC as special (or, arguably, once did).

The other two are both a lot better than the epics of late, especially the epics-with-one-extra-panel-that-ruin-them. I really liked the Peter Pan one, it reminded me a lot of older SMBCs, and that can't be bad.

So I'm starting to think there might actually be something in this whole Zach listening to us. Or, alternately, ideas sometimes occur simultaneously without common stimuli.

But it's a direct quote right? I'm not familiar enough with Peter Pan to be able to tell.

Ugh. I don't know. The directions Peter Pan gives don't really make sense, but not for the reason the comic implies...

The Peter Pan one told a joke through images and text. It was a good comic. I didn't laugh at it, but I think if Zach was putting out comics like this regularly, one of them would get me.

The dessert one was dreadful.

Circle of life, pretty okay too. We are all in agreement.

Circle of life was okay.

Dessert terrorist was a poor attempt at political commentary and fell flat

Peter Pan nearly made me laugh, ergo it wins

I didn't get that one at all.