Hard Read

[prog]

I finally just got the joke in this PBF comic after encountering it for the third time. It's pretty funny, but it should have emphasized more that the book-people aren't looking at each other in the middle panel. In fairness, I suppose this is tricky to do if your characters lack faces.

(At first I thought maybe the man-book was apologizing for impotence or something, but that didn't really explain why they're books in the first place. I found myself feeling a whisper of 6th-grade anxiety that here was a dirty joke that all my friends were laughing at while it only perplexed me.)

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[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

I LOVED that it wasn't telegraphed from a mile away. That's what makes some of the funniest PBF comics--it takes you a moment to get them, so the payoff is that much funnier.