Only once every few months do I laugh at something hysterically surreal in 4chan. Meanwhile, it’s been much longer than that since I shared the source of those yuks. Let’s fix that, shall we?
Poor Big Bird’s expression says more than the dialogue. Well, obviously, but…you get the idea.
Dinosaur Comics has a new competitor in postmodern weirdness. Not new new, exactly, but new to me. Thinkin’ Lincoln is a webcomic dedicated to the disembodied heads of various historical figures and their hastily drawn antics. Example here. Together with Dinosaur Comics, Thinkin’ Lincoln creates a subgenre of humour that’s 50% lazy artistry and 50% gags that shouldn’t work but do. These boys make postmodern a freakin’ verb:
I hadn’t heard of Gregor MacGregor until Dinosaur Comics postmoderned him.
White Ninja Comics and anything you find in the back page of the Daily Texan aren’t part of this group. Where’s the 50% funny?
Nikita Khrushchev dissolved most of the Gulag Archipelago in the late 1950s, but what of the Soviet prison system after that time? Japanese animators would love to fill you in: living in a 1961 cell involved bunnies. And 5-o’clock shadow chickens. And possessed doors. What’s that whiner Solzhenitsyn complaining about?