Monday, November 30, 2020

 2390

It's another "you don't understand how hard it is to be this smart" comic


2391

224964, was probably funnier when Randall and his doughy friends did this on their Zoom call wearing masks

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Thursday, November 19, 2020

 2387


What's it like to have an imagination entirely circumscribed by Jurassic Park?

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

 2386


"I'm not a good person for marrying you even though you had cancer, I'm a good person for pointing out that it's unenlightened of you to think that"

Saturday, November 14, 2020

 2385


It's meta because the students have to demonstrate they are good at the course materials in order to pass, that means it's funny

The alt text does the same joke again, that means it's funny too

Monday, November 9, 2020

2382 


Remember about a week ago when Randall was complaining about how unhealthy it is to be compulsively checking the news all the time?

Thursday, November 5, 2020

 2381


Today in "mindlessly regurgitating things I saw on Twitter this week", it's that bear thing that was going around, with a bizarre exercise in cross-promotion.

There are too many characters: either Randall or Blonde Megan needs to go.

There is no joke: the intended punchline, such as it is, is ruined by the second panel.

The inclusion of Gretchen adds nothing, except for the intriguing implication that Randall senses his long-dreaded decay can no longer be forestalled. It would have been simple enough to have one of his usual characters vomit forth the same clumsily-written explanation. That he instead chose to add a Very Special Guest Star* suggests that he is attempting to ingratiate himself with the next generation of Geek™ a la Luke 16:1-13.


*And did so in a characteristically lazy way. Remember when people like Mr. Rogers or Yo Yo Ma would go on Arthur, and the animators would draw special animal characters for them? Randall's equivalent is scribbling dreadlocks on a stickman.

  2652 Self-deprecation can't last forever; at some point you have to actually be good at your job