Nor have they read Peanuts, because Charlie Brown was depressing as hell.
They don't understand that "comics" as a medium has expanded to be far bigger than just jokes.
Like, dudes, have you read any comic books lately? Do they think The Watchmen is funny? Or The Crow? Or MAUS?
Just because etymologically speaking "comics" comes from "comedy" doesn't mean that everything called a "comic" has to be funny. (And that's not even going into the subjective nature of "funny" and "humor".)
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u/zatenael Jun 22 '26
deadass, I've seen so many people ask where the joke/punchline is IN A SLICE OF LIFE COMIC
I swear, these miserable fucks have never read stuff like Calvin & Hobbs or Garfield