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.

[prog.livejournal.com]

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.)