Yeah, I’ve seen all of Flying Circus and all of their movies.

Monty Python did absurdist stuff, but they didn’t violate core principles of timing and surprise. Jokes recurred or dragged at times without overstaying their welcome.

A piece of absurdist humor still needs to be humorous. Being weird doesn’t absolve something from being boring or pointless.

Yep, it’s definitely that and not the fact that this is a dogshit comic.

Nosiree.

The core of humor is doing something unexpected. “Willy Wonka makes turnips” is unexpected. The same is true with “Charlie doesn’t like what Willy Wonka makes”.

The problem is that both of those things are telegraphed really early, thus defusing any surprise they could have delivered. By the last frame we expect Charlie to have a bad time at Willy Wonka’s factory, and he does.

This comic is making animal noises into a microphone and Chuck Berry wants to slap the shit out of it.

“Subverting expectations” is like jazz.

A good jazz musician knows the rules of music. They choose which ones to bend and which ones to break. When a couple of rules are broken here and there it’s pleasurable and exciting.

When too many rules are broken, it’s Yoko Ono.

Try using “precisely” or “roughly” where applicable. It lets people know you’re talking about firm realities and aren’t using hyperbole.

It’s a stupid, imperfect workaround and I hate that it’s necessary, but it’s the best we have for a decade or three until people stop bastardizing “literally”.

A shitty comic.

An act of self-indulgence.

A desperate cry from an attention starved individual.

Take your pick.

Who would have thought that a thing called a “comic” would be funny?

It’s not like serious works of fiction using the same format would need a separate term like “graphic novel” or anything. That would never happen.

We’re communicating instantaneously over a globe spanning computer network. In the early 90s that was not possible for the average joe. It was only in the very tail end of the decade that doing so didn’t require a fair amount of money and/or technical knowledge.

The network provides all of the information in every library on the planet to us instantaneously.