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.)

Comments

[hahathor.livejournal.com]

You must have actually done the reading when you were in school. Those of us who slacked away with Cliff or Monarch Notes are probably in better position to get the joke.

[rserocki.livejournal.com]

I thought that was funny, too.

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

It took me a sec or two to see it as well. If it were Monarch Notes, it would have jumped right out and I would have gotten it immediately.

[queue.livejournal.com]

On a first read, it didn't even register with me that there was even a CliffsNotes book there. I agree that something more should have been done to point at it.