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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2007-04-12 12:46 pm
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Hard Read

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.)

[identity profile] prog.livejournal.com 2007-04-12 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Do they still sell Cliff's Notes? I'd imagine Wikipedia's obviated a large part of their value.

I was totallly Cliff's Cultured, so that as soon as I saw the yellow-and-black I got the joke. But it took me a long time to see it. (Something to do with the naked lady being in the same panel, probably.)