This was pretty funny, if poorly executed. The idea of doing something in a terribly inefficient way and using fire is pretty solid comedy stuff, though the idea that you could actually slice a potato with a tennis racket is a little crazy for a man who claims to like "science" which as I understand it is somewhat reality based.
Anyway, I like the picture and the idea but I wish there had been some talking, maybe? It looks like an awful lot of white space, and the potato is so tiny and stuff.
Oh and alt text: There are ZERO ways this can go wrong.
I took the cup as stick#2 wanting Orange Juice with his hash browns. Do Americans do that a lot?
ReplyDeleteAnd I felt the "ooh I'll crossover with a previous comic" (the fork alt text) totally killed what was slightly funny. I like XKCD. But Munroe is a bit of a twat.
Oh I am sure the orange juice is what it is. But I think that from an artistic point of view, we'd be better off without it.
ReplyDeleteA background would do pounds of good for this single panel. For one thing, it would offset the awkward speechlessness and would make it seem like a brief, humorous snapshot of some picnic or a gathering or a context of some sort.
ReplyDeleteIt's really not unfunny or bad, it's just too half-hearted to be artistic.
probably true.
ReplyDeleteI think that's one of those McDonald type hashbrown holders, not a cup.
ReplyDeleteyou are probably right.
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