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September 30, 2005

#6: Irony explain

Irony

[A panel only with text. The last text is written below a line in all capital letters.]

When self-reference, irony, and meta-humor go too far

A CAUTIONARY TALE

[Cueball talks to his Cueball-like friend.]

Cueball: This statement wouldn’t be funny if not for irony!

[Cueball laughs at his own joke in front of his friend.]

Cueball: ha ha

Friend: ha ha, I guess.

[Again a panel only with text.]

20,000 years later…

[A desolate brown badlands landscape with an imposing red sun in the dark blue sky.]