Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3296 to 3300 (29 August - 02 September 2016)
mikmaxs:
--- Quote from: Tova on 31 Aug 2016, 21:03 ---If you didn't find it funny, then knowing something about what caused it won't make it funnier.
Edit: to go a bit further into it, Patreons know what Marigold was yelling about, but are no wiser than you are about how Dale ended up with concussion. The humour, either way, lies in wondering how the heck that happened.
Edit number two: The whole conversation is basically a noodle incident.
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I mentioned (in so many words) 'Noodle incedent' style humor in my first post, and my statement remains that it doesn't work here, because they're not mentioning some mystery event, they're mentioning an actual thing that happened in continuity.
And, in general, knowing more about the situation *does* make a joke funnier. For one, I wouldn't have to do mental gymanstics to figure out what they're talking about. For two, I'm assuming based on your phrasing that Marigold wasn't just yelling "Oh god oh god", but the comic today implies just that, which rather changes the context of the situation.
Tova:
I could tell you right now everything that happened in the comic you didn't see.
I guarantee you wouldn't suddenly find today's comic funny.
Tova:
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 31 Aug 2016, 21:27 ---And, in general, knowing more about the situation *does* make a joke funnier.
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We will just have to agree to disagree on that one.
mikmaxs:
I'm going to add real quick that it's entirely possible, if not likely, that Jeph did this entirely by accident. Chances are, he just thought, "Hey, this would be a funny follow-up strip to my Patreon comic," wrote it, and published it the same as he does every other comic, without considering how it might read to a casual audience. It seems unlikely that this is a pure "Lookit-my-patreon!" Ad comic.
--- Quote from: Tova on 31 Aug 2016, 21:29 ---I could tell you right now everything that happened in the comic you didn't see.
I guarantee you wouldn't suddenly find today's comic funny.
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Well, after the fact? Yeah, probably. If I had known it in advance, though? I doubt it.
Tova:
But how do you know when you haven't seen it?
There is nothing of anything significance in the comic you didn't see that can't be very simply inferred from reading today's comic.
Edit: there's a link to the patreon-only comic on the site btw. So now you can judge for yourselves.
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