I like to think that instead of Margaret being a character from a children's book (which I haven't read), Randy's portraying the Antichrist, Margaret Thatcher. Like, after she was done killing the British workers and also the Irish, she decided to be direct and go kill God.
POLITICAL HUMOR
Anyway, this is totally just an Art As Framework (aka "could be a tweet") comic spread out over four panels. It's a decent joke and I think most people would recognize the opening lines, but the art really fails to add anything. Props to Randy for trying though, even if it failed. Dramatic zoom-ins just don't work with stick figures (see: #631). The dramatic silhouette kinda works, but even that comes off more like a parody of distant silhouette shots than an honest attempt at drama (albeit ironic drama).
This joke would work better if the joke was that stick figures can't do dramatic facial expressions. Instead of the speech being an originally non-threatening thing that's made threatening, it'd be the reverse, intentionally milking the inability of a completely blank face to show emotion.
This review was written at 3 AM.
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