1961

In a stroke of genius, Randall realizes that if he tells jokes about people standing around staring at each other awkwardly, he doesn't even have to draw different panels!

1960

If you don't know, "code golf" is this nerd thing where you have to solve a given programming challenge using the least code possible. Solutions to these challenges can sometimes be sublimely brilliant. "Reverse code golf", then, would be about solving a problem in the most inefficient way possible. The joke, then, is "what if nerd reference, but backwards". COMEDY AU (THAT'S THE ATOMIC SYMBOL FOR GOLD)

A couple other things to note. First of all, this is nowhere near the most inefficient possible way to write Moby Dick. Second, this has already been done in actual code golf .

1959

ITT someone who thought he'd be 20 forever discovers he is 35

1958

What do you want to bet the next comic is about gun control?

1957

When Randall's writing these, how does he know when to stop?

"20 lines of nerd word salad and lazy pop culture references wasn't enough, but 21 will surely knock 'em dead"?

1956

"Scientists are trying to unify these two science things, so it would be funny if they were also trying to unify them with other things"

"Scientists have split the atom, and they've also split Sudan, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, the USSR, and the EU"

"Scientists have learned how to make powered flight work, and they've also figured out how to make cereal"

1955
The joke is supercilious and hypocritical-- "people who didn't work for NASA like me shouldn't be allowed to make jokes about killer robots"-- but what really burns me up is that Randall can't be bothered to draw individual panels in a stick figure comic:

I also went back a few weeks looking for more Tai Chi poses. Those aren't all quite identical:

But by God, I wish I could get paid to be that lazy.

1954

The irony of Randall Munroe telling a joke about the Dunning-Kruger effect should escape no one.

1953

This guy's life really does revolve around Twitter, doesn't it?

1952

Behold the modern man: a man so unmoored from reality that he has lost all sense of perspective; so weak-minded that he is thrown into spasms of terror by the sight of two competing blandishments; so sheltered that he is able to indulge his solipsism and cowardice without apparent consequence. Not by the sweat of his brow does he eat his food. He lives the life of a rentier, utterly free from obligation. Is he fit for anything but the guillotine?

1951

Every year, when the Super Bowl happens, Randall is wracked with anguish as he struggles to decide whether he wants to show off how magnanimous he is by condescending to not be an asshole to his friends or whether he wants to sneer at the mouth-breathers. Having elected Trump, this year the mouth-breathers must suffer the full measure of Randall's searing disdain. We can only hope, for their sake, that Randall will have forgiven them by next year.

1950

WHAT IF THE CHICKEN POX VACCINE IS CAUSING PEOPLE TO BE NAMED HARPER LOLOLOL