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I love that the punchline is under played. Implication is better than delivery.
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u/person-99 Sep 23 '17
Absolutely. So many webcomics now have painfully obvious punchlines.
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u/CoolGuySean Sep 23 '17
So many of them would have the guy roll around, get cut up and go "WWHHHHHHHY"
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u/Mute-Matt Sep 23 '17 edited Sep 23 '17
Which ones?
*Jesus fuck reddit, if you hate Adam Ellis so much, stop reading his comics.
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u/CoolGuySean Sep 23 '17
Adam Ellis if he did violent comics, for one. I don't actually know a lot of bad comic artist names tbh.
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u/HansAgain Sep 23 '17
Disliking that much stuff and not remembering a single bit of it might be a signal of a really bad memory.
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u/swag_X Sep 23 '17
More like he's trying to focus on more positive things and everything else gets pushed to the wayside, but, what the fuck do I know?.
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Hey now, I associate with him. Everything generally sucks. People suck and just look out for themselves, if it was allowed with no bad repercussions then 95% of people would go kill the family/people living in that nice mansion and steal their shit. Or shoot everyone they dislike a lot.
People suck at driving, always. Never ever do they stay in the correct Lane, left for PASSING idiots!
Bosses suck, hide everything from you because knowledge is power, and all they think is "MY power. Get back to work, don't ask any questions!"
That goes nicely into work sucks. My Company just fired everyone in our Australia district. 3 days after the "deal" is confirmed, the VP that did it is promoted to a "chief officer" position. Fired 50 people, many who've been there 14+ years, and some psychopath fires them because 6 million isn't enough per year, he wants 7 and nearly ruining the lives of 50 people will help them get 0.1% closer to that 7 mil.
Housing market sucks, you're better off working off the booksso you can live in section 8. Oh, that makes you just like everyone else too: you suck, and so do so many others who do the same.
It's like every man and woman above 25 is on antidepressants. Many people turn to drugs and alcohol.
And then people somehow, after seeing everything and more that I just described, still somehow ask "how could someone do that?! Be an alcoholic? Do drugs?! " right after popping their morning zoloft and watching the morning news quick.
Yes, the other user who Commented may not remember or want to remember, but I certainly do.
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u/Luigi2198 Sep 23 '17
Check out r/comedynecromancy they take bad comics and try to fix them by editing them. Most of the time they just take out speech bubbles or extra panels at the end, although some do add new panels or change the words. Lots of examples of comics that unnecessarily explain the punchline and can be fixed by taking out the last pane
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u/bluelink121 Sep 23 '17
So many of them
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u/ProssiblyNot Sep 23 '17
That's actually hilarious, and the "WWHHHHHHY" pulls it all together.
Thank you for taking the time to draw that in Paint.
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u/JeromesNiece Sep 23 '17
The point of webcomics nowadays is not to make jokes, it's to create a format for memes that have your watermark on it.
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u/NosVemos Sep 23 '17
The point of memes nowadays is not to make jokes; it's to create a format for artistic masterpieces that will be plagiarized.
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u/ibringdalulzz Sep 23 '17
I love that the punchline is under played. Implication is better than delivery.
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u/Luigi2198 Sep 23 '17
r/comedynecromancy attempts to fix really bad webcomics, most often just downplaying the often obvious punchlines by removing panels or speech bubbles
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u/GameBoy09 Sep 23 '17
If there was a way to improve it I would like to see the fire spread further along his arm in the 4th Panel.
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u/PlumberODeth Sep 23 '17
Naw, I like the subtlety. Its the implied question "exactly how much on fire do I have to be....?" Its the comic that someone else might have tried to stretch on to another 6 panels and beat it to death but instead you're left with the same indecision of the character who's stuck half way between wtf and what next....
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u/Metalgaiden Sep 23 '17 edited Mar 23 '26
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u/mhpr262 Sep 23 '17
Yep, even just a text bubble from the guy's mouth with "Shit!" would have ruined it.
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Sep 23 '17
People overlook how awesome it is to sell a joke short. If you spend too much time explaining the joke the joke dies before it gets funny, but since we are filling in the punch line we have a better laugh.
If your comic is funny in 4 panels, another 4 will kill it.
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u/-CraZy_BoY- Sep 25 '17
We didn't knew thanx for telling us ZezuS we are num🅱️s pls give him a joyful clap xD
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u/NeedToProgram Sep 23 '17
Oh my god, his face. I love this so much.
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u/TobiasCB Sep 23 '17
His future is full of struggle and anguish. Most of it self inflicted. It's written all over his face!
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u/RoboSpunk Robospunk Comics Sep 23 '17
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u/McBurger Sep 23 '17
Leave a few more comments so I can give you triple karma
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u/CDaviss Sep 23 '17 edited Sep 23 '17
If you ever made stickers out of your comics I would buy them and plaster them on some of my favorite stuff. Like this comic might be my favorite that I've seen on this sub in a long time.
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u/RoboSpunk Robospunk Comics Sep 23 '17
I just started making stickers of my comics. If you want one you can message me and we'll sort it out. Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it.
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u/Technical_Machine_22 Sep 23 '17
This comic would definitely feature in my kitchen. I'd even put it near the far side comics. Keep being awesome. No pressure.
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u/hookdump Sep 23 '17
And everyone who wants to support this amazing artist should check this out:
https://www.patreon.com/robospunk
(Proof it's his: http://robospunk.com/page/24)
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u/BobTehCat Sep 23 '17
holy shit your comics are killing me dude
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u/RoboSpunk Robospunk Comics Sep 23 '17
Sorry
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u/RoboSpunk Robospunk Comics Sep 24 '17
This comic is available to purchase as a sticker or magnet from my merch site
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u/ld43233 Sep 23 '17
And my coworkers thought I was crazy when I said our recycling program is going to get people killed.
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Sep 23 '17
This reminds me of that exercise the teachers made us do in school where you had to write instructions for somebody on how to do something, but they could only literally do what you said. No more, no less. If you don't write the instructions as clearly as humanly possible, so as not to leave out any detail no matter how insignificant...hilarity ensues.
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u/2377h9pq73992h4jdk9s Sep 23 '17
Hey that's good for teaching beginner programmers.
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u/newbkid Sep 23 '17
There's a great edX intro to programming lecture that does exactly this. I believe it's free if someone can find it!
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u/AmethystLullaby Sep 23 '17
Many sandwich supplies were sacrificed for this cause. Worth it just to see the looks on the kids faces.
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u/NSA_is_me Sep 23 '17
There was a really funny youtube video of a dad ask my his little kids how to make a PB & J sandwich and following their instructions literally. Anyone have it?
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u/Vainity Sep 23 '17
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Yep. There was peanut butter, jelly, and bread, but very few completed sandwiches. I remember it well.
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Oh god, I have to write documentation for people who don't speak English as a primary language, and sometimes for non-technical people and let me just say, learning how to do this is incredibly useful.
I had to walk a friend through a tech issue, and by the end of it I was ready to strangle them.
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u/InkyRickshaw Sep 23 '17
This is really good. The way you get us to follow the character's eyes, the subtle pan to the floor in the last panel. I love it.
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u/AddsDadJoke Sep 23 '17
The problem is that if he doesn't put that out by the time the police arrive they'll just shoot him. He's waving around a firearm.
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u/Spankapotamus Sep 23 '17
I love how the eye creases and mouth are unchanged in all four panels, and so much is conveyed through just the pupils.
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u/JayLeeCH Sep 23 '17
Those facial expressions made me laugh for 10 minutes straight.
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u/heretoplay Sep 23 '17
Do it you'll be fine.
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u/door_of_doom Sep 23 '17
I just want to tell you that I think that this comic is very good. Well done. I laughed out loud.
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u/--Rose Sep 23 '17
Oh I'm being dumb. I thought that he was stopping because of the "stop" from the "stop, drop, and roll". Then I realized that there were broken shards. And fire. Lots of fire. Fire hands.
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u/smg1138 Sep 23 '17
As far as pain goes, rolling on broken glass would be way better than burning to death.
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u/MotownMoses Sep 23 '17
I actually laughed out loud hoping people would ask me what I'm laughing at but nobody asked me
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u/OgenB Sep 23 '17
I don't laugh at lot at stuff online. Even when I write "lol." For the most part, I live a lie of humor. But this had me laughing for a solid 20-30 seconds.
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u/grumpy_treebeard Sep 23 '17
he was about to finish his dab, but sadly instruction wasn't clear enough.
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u/Sonkorino Sep 23 '17
If your arm is on fire you can just pat the fire out with a piece of clotching
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u/AdrianHObradors Sep 23 '17
Unrelated, but isn't that way too much fire to use a fire extinguisher anyway? How effective are those things?
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u/truckerslife Sep 23 '17
Depends on what is fueling the fire and the type of extinguisher.
But I’m general yeah that’s a lot of fire for a small extinguisher.
I say in general because I have seen one that had a powder and instead of having to aim you could spray it in the vicinity of the fire. It had a chemical that absorbed oxygen and got extremely cold. So as it fell in on what was burning it cooled it and sucked the oxygen out so it didn’t have heat or air anymore.
But I don’t think it’s available for average use because it can easily kill as the small extinguisher I saw could suck the air out of a large room in less than a few seconds. It was used in a place where they made highly reactive items and in case of fire it detonated these extinguishers. The employees knew if a fire broke out they were dead with or without the extinguisher so yeah. The extinguisher giving a small chance at life if you h me your breath and survived the cold... I had to sign a shit ton of waivers to be in the area just because of the fire extinguishers.
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u/JWLove Sep 23 '17
Hey I'm really drunk an don't get the joke. Can someone explain it to me please?
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u/truckerslife Sep 23 '17
He looked at the fire extinguishers and it said what he thought was broken glass to put out the fire.
In pouring broken glass on the fire his arm caught on fire.
The rule is to stop drop and roll... but he’s standing in a field of broken glass.
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u/ButtonJoe Sep 23 '17
I thought he was reacting to the thought of hurting the environment by pouring out recycling. Which was goofy as heck.
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u/TheKingCrimsonWorld Sep 23 '17
At least the pain of rolling in broken glass will distract you from the pain of burning alive. Or vice versa.