FoxTrot by Bill Amend for November 17, 2013
Transcript:
Marcus: Innocuous inquiry. Jason: Introductory response. Declaration of joke's premise. Marcus: Skeptical statement. Jason: Support of premise via examples, usually three. Logically yet idiotic conclusion. Marcus: Dryly delivered punchline. Jason: Unnecessary dialogue. Marcus: We're pretending to be comic strip characters. Peter: You guys are so weird. Jason: Don't speak. Just hold this over your head.
nixie224 over 10 years ago
Talk about meta
Kamino Neko over 10 years ago
Silly Jason, that should be a ???, not a !!!
tsandl over 10 years ago
“Amused chuckle followed by entry of odd comment.”
rdh288 over 10 years ago
I love how panels five and six are the same thing :)
scyphi26 over 10 years ago
Okay, can’t say I’ve ever seen it done quite like this in a comic strip before.
foyers over 10 years ago
It fits the pattern of a “Knock, knock… Who’s there?” joke
bryan42 over 10 years ago
I sympathize, guys. Years ago my wife and I went to a Halloween party as Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres from the silent movie, The Sheik. We were in complete grayscale and had made up a couple dozen flip cards each with appropriate phrases on them. We didn’t speak, just overacted and pantomimed while holding up the cards.Nobody got it. And I mean nobody.
Alan Steenhouwer over 10 years ago
There putting on so much pressure, I can hear the fourth wall crying.
rgcviper over 10 years ago
OK—now this one was clever. Made me smile.
vldazzle over 10 years ago
Made me smile too, but I also sympathize, Llywus, I have also done costumes (and paintings too) that are not understood by some who have seen them.
Sparklecomics over 10 years ago
The foxtrot comics really do work that way.
Michelle Morris over 10 years ago
I see. (Sorry,Comic Minister!)
RyRin365 over 10 years ago
See Da Vinci’s Notebook – Title of the Song
Doctor11 over 10 years ago
Well, THAT’S ironic.
JP Steve Premium Member over 10 years ago
I just compared last Sunday’s strip with this model — the fit is almost perfect!
gimmickgenius over 10 years ago
“! ! !” ? Must be a comic strip by Al Hartley.
chaosandcake over 10 years ago
Banal comment referencing premise.
pharclar about 10 years ago
Clever comment relating to the punchline that adds on to the joke.
undava over 5 years ago
Ahem, and the irony. Punchline
We don’t do that here over 4 years ago
Some clever title
SuperCharged5- about 3 years ago
4th wall
phoenixnyc over 2 years ago
I hope he gave the Neo-Futurists royalties for this gag……
Josequeen over 2 years ago
Hah… ‘pretending’.
DevilDog2001 Premium Member about 2 years ago
Big Nate said it best: The punchline should be in the penultimate panel. The last panel should be a reaction to boost the punchline.
Nate's Prank Day Chaos about 2 months ago
Put some words into the speech bubbles, guys!