He totally got the idea for this (perhaps subconsciously, but still) from the first Animorphs book, where Tom, being controlled by a Yeerk, asks Jake to come to The Sharing and Tom manages to make his face all scared for a second to try and get Jake not to go. Man, The Animorphs was awesome. I should read through it again sometime.
I don't find this funny. I think it's like, interesting, but it doesn't really feel like a joke to me. It's more like Randy's just presenting an idea than using that idea to make a joke. What's the punchline supposed to be? Or, failing that, what's the climax?
If I was XKCD's editor, I might have added in a second bit where we zoom in on Ponytail's head. We'd find out that an alien isn't possessing Ponytail, it's Ponytail that's keeping an alien trapped in her head! Dun-dun-duuun! Which, as it turns out, was also done in Animorphs, by the [SPOILER], so I guess we all lose at the originality game today.
If it seems like that review ended abruptly, it's because I couldn't think of anything else to say.
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