I stand corrected...

--- Paul <strongbadforawesome@...> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I know that if I have to explain a cartoon then it
> probably isn't
> funny, and plus, if it was even a little funny then
> it won't be
> after explaining it because that takes any funny out
> of things.
>
> However here is why I think those 3 are funny.
>
> 1. It combined that news of the people's ashes
> going out into space
> a few weeks ago with that 80s Folgers coffee
> crystals commercial.
> The TV ad was basically taking place with "hidden
> cameras" in fine
> restaurants where they secretly switch the regular
> expensive coffee
> the restaurant gives its patrons with the Folgers
> coffee crystals
> and "let's see if they notice". Then the commercial
> shows how the
> customer reveals surprise that such a cheapo coffee
> was so delicious
> and how they will start buying Folgers. So I sort
> of played off
> that but only with ashes from that space thing
> because ashes look
> alike and Earl would do something weird like that
> and think it's
> normal.
>
> 2. I was having Milkman Dan convincing Sluggo that
> a rock is
> living, and so he was duped into wanting to have a
> funeral for it.
> Which apparently kids do a lot when they lose pets.
> They'll ask for
> things like funerals and coffins and stuff like real
> humans, because
> their minds are black/white and that's what they are
> brought up to
> believe (that when something dies there is a funeral
> for it etc).
>
> 3. The old man decides to confess to stealing
> money. So he does to
> the padre, but he forgot that he was at a costume
> party and that
> isn't a padre but someone else in a priest outfit.
>
>
> Sorry it's been a while getting back to this, as
> I've been doing so
> on my free time. I've been busy with a work project
> and haven't
> checked this yahoo thing for a while now. But
> anyway..
>
> So, when you say to be more humorous would you say
> that I should be
> a little less dry/dark humor and a little more
> obvious humor? I'll
> try that next.
>
> Thanks for the input!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> --- In rmcsforum@..., Kurt Van Hook
> <kurtvanhook@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not an expert here by any stretch of the
> > imagination, and literary criticism is definitely
> not
> > my strength....but....I think that you should
> attempt
> > to be funny when authoring any future comics. Try
> to
> > be humorous.
> >
> > --- strongbadforawesome
> > <strongbadforawesome@...> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Here y'all go. Three more before I leave for the
> > > weekend. I realize
> > > that the first one is more geared toward the US,
> so
> > > it probably isn't
> > > as funny overseas. Plus it's a ribbing on early
> 90s
> > > pop culture.
> > > Thank you for any critiques you may have. It
> will
> > > only help me get
> > > better.
> > >
> > > 1.
> > >
> >
>
http://monkeydyne.com/rmcs/opencomic.phtml?rowid=107160
> > >
> > >
> > > 2.
> > >
> >
>
http://monkeydyne.com/rmcs/opencomic.phtml?rowid=107161
> > >
> > >
> > > 3.
> > >
> >
>
http://monkeydyne.com/rmcs/opencomic.phtml?rowid=107162
> > >
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>