I actually enjoyed today's comic, despite it featuring Zach's signature Child-Who-Knows-A-Lot-About-An-Academic-Subject-At-The-Expense-Of-An-Adult's-Dignity-Or-Convenience character.
Here's why -
First of all, there was an actual joke.
The joke was funny (or at least airtight) and concise. The premise, albeit stupid, is set up and reasonably paced over two panels, and the punchline, derived from the plausible believability of child's misunderstanding, is delivered in the third panel. Done.
It made no effort educate the reader about Zach's worldview. This is good, because the parts of his worldview he makes into comics are either stupid or have been made into comics so many times that there's no way any comic of Zach's featuring them could be funny (Existential angst is our man on both accounts).
There aren't any trite strawman satires of creationists/politicians/anti-science proponents ["What's the difference?" joke here].
The joke was funny (or at least airtight) and concise. The premise, albeit stupid, is set up and reasonably paced over two panels, and the punchline, derived from the plausible believability of child's misunderstanding, is delivered in the third panel. Done.
It made no effort educate the reader about Zach's worldview. This is good, because the parts of his worldview he makes into comics are either stupid or have been made into comics so many times that there's no way any comic of Zach's featuring them could be funny (Existential angst is our man on both accounts).
There aren't any trite strawman satires of creationists/politicians/anti-science proponents ["What's the difference?" joke here].
Zach doesn't read this forum.
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ol qwerty bastard wrote:bitcoin is backed by math, and math is intrinsically perfect and logically consistent always
I'm facing a dilemma. On one hand, Gruest, you're pretty cool. On the other hand, you're a newbie and therefore a threat to my position as best newbie at this current time. And on the other hand, I don't know where did this third hand come from oh my god help me
That is a great relief. Now I can resume my true position as the token Australian. Wait...
I don't even do anything that you guys haven't got covered. Are any of you pyromaniacs? How about insomniacs? I'll settle for the token psycho, if that's all that's left.
I'm bipolar because I think that's a license to be an unpredictable dick at times, and wallow in self pity when I'm not. Also, when I do or say something nonsensical or illogical, it's because I'm quirky.
Contemporary romantic comedies have taught me many things.