The first four panels are true enough, and it is in part due to those rights that I'm allowed to write this hateblog. (I live in Eagleland, so I have rights, unlike you savages in Cananada and France.)
First off, Randy actually called this one a public service announcement. That is literally what I called his two comics about Heartbleed as an insult. When Randy wrote "PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT" at the top of panel one, he admitted he wasn't trying to be funny or even entertaining with this.
I don't even need to say anything more. He didn't want to be interesting today, he just wanted to yell at people for a bit and draw a door. A nice door, sure, I've got no problems with the door, but it's not enough to make this more than a glorified tumblr post.
[EDIT:] I'm retroactively giving this the "WORST XKCD EVER (SO FAR)" award, specifically because it wasn't even trying to be entertaining or interesting or funny in any way. Every other comic was trying to be, at the very least, vaguely interesting. Even 631 was trying to be funny (I think), and even if it failed badly, at least it failed.
If XKCD, at its very best, is a rocket taking off, then a standard-level stinker is a rocket that explodes, a particularly bad one is a rocket that kills a bunch of people, and 631 was a rocket that blew up before it even launched. This one was a rocket that was planned, and as the plans were being sent to everyone they were intercepted by terrorists and used to kill the president.
I'd also be remiss if I didn't link to a much better deconstruction of this comic done here that was linked in xkcdsucks' parody of this comic. Read that. It's good!
Not only was it not trying to be funny, but its earnest message was bullshit. The right to free speech means a lot more than "the government can't stop you but everyone else can". And free speech means more than the 1st amendment to the Eagleland constitution, especially for those of us who don't live in Eagleland.
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