Okay, coooool. After last Friday’s
not-quite-shitty-enough-to-complain-about comic, and Monday’s
actually-pretty-funny comic, I’m glad we’re back in everyone’s comfort zone
with boring-and-simple-failures-at-comedy comics.
Jokes generally aren't funny when boiled down to their
base, but just do some compare and contrast with me here:
Today’s XKCD: The phrase “Identity thief” could be taken
different ways.
Today’s SMBC: Bankers could be scared off by thinking you’re
worth more; like animals can be scared off if they think you’re bigger than
them (also girl scouts are badass when trained in New York).
You can see the different level of thought that went into
the comics. It'd be difficult to rewrite today’s SMBC and get a notable increase in
quality, there’s already a nice setup, good punchline, and stinger.
You could easily improve today’s XKCD. Add some setup; show
the processes of stealing someone’s actual identity. This could have been a
whole hilarious storyline, the struggle to get one’s identity back, using
someone else’s identity. There’s such brilliance waiting just out of sight,
yearning to be explored. This comic had the potential to be a hilarious
original idea. Instead it sits here, alone, unloved, and wishing it was funnier,
rather like me on Friday nights. The joke’s actually made worse by the alt-text. I’m imagining some supernatural
personality-swap.avi, but instead it’s just stealing a credit card. That is
just lame.
Just as a final note, if that’s Randy’s true identity
(which at this point, even if it wasn’t originally, he’s probably become the mask), it
makes me wonder why someone would want to steal it.
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