I'm going to be Frank: Hello, my name is Frank.
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I'm going to be frank: This joke has been done before, a lot. It's an obvious joke that almost everyone makes some variation on when introduced to the concepts of canon and noncanon (and by extension, headcanons). "Canon" is pronounced identically to "cannon". Cannons are weapons, and so on and so forth the obvious joke writes itself.
I do find myself appreciating the use of Black Hat here, though. He's chaotic enough to have a weapon under his hat, and more importantly, he has a hat! The preexisting characterization adds something that the visual pun alone wouldn't have alone. Likewise with the physical comedy.
That explosion in the third panel looks awful, though. The explosion proper isn't terrible, but the debris is just plain bad, it doesn't even look like it's moving.
The question here is if enough is added to the punchline to elevate this from "tired, old visual pun" to "new take on old joke". I personally say no, it doesn't, but it does elevate it to "not crap".
Today's review by Frank Sinatra.
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