Honestly, this would actually be a pretty good joke, were it
not for the format. I want to say upfront that I have nothing against graph
jokes by default, but often (such as in the example above) they just come off
as lazy.
I forgive Zach Weinersmith* for a lot of things that I don’t
forgive Randy for, and there’s one main reason for that (with a decent amount
of secondary reasons, but we’ll probably get to them in time). Zach updates
every single day, occasionally even more than that. That’s why when Zach comes
out with something even this lazy, I’m okay with it. We all have off days, or
days where we forgot we had that thing to do, or even days where we couldn’t be
bothered.
Randy updates three days a week, with the occasional bigger
project/chart/poster. That means he has a minimum of two days to make most
given comics. Even giving him downtime and time dedicated to said bigger
projects, that’s too much time to forgive jokes in the form of a graph that
could have just as easily been fleshed out comics, especially considering that
said fleshed out comics would still be stick figures.
*when typing up the draft for this, I misremembered his
first name as “Anthony”. Just something to consider.
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