Sometimes, Alanis, it really is ironic.
I love this Pearls comic first because, as is so often the case with comic strips one loves, I can relate. So much.
Seriously. I have been kicked off two fan forums, chatted on ESPN during the Chicago-Green Bay game, participated in fan fights on TWoP and spent several months cruising the comics blogosphere (remind me to tell you about the 'Spider-Man doesn't enrich my mind, thus is a miserable waste of ink!' crowd someday). I want somebody to manufacture this thing and sell it on late-night informercials for $19.99. I am assuming it will come with a special FREE! extra-soft banky for edit wars on Wikipedia.
Which leads me to the second reason I love this strip: Because some people actually pored over the second panel and came up with a Magic-Eye style 'F---' . (Just to save you time, it's in the lower right-hand corner - that's actually a '# rock' after panel compression.) Then -- this is the part I love more than anything else -- they called their papers and made a stink about it. And the papers dutifully wafted it over the masses. Leaving an utterly baffled cartoonist in their wake.
Self-fulfilling self-references are wonderful things.
Seriously. I have been kicked off two fan forums, chatted on ESPN during the Chicago-Green Bay game, participated in fan fights on TWoP and spent several months cruising the comics blogosphere (remind me to tell you about the 'Spider-Man doesn't enrich my mind, thus is a miserable waste of ink!' crowd someday). I want somebody to manufacture this thing and sell it on late-night informercials for $19.99. I am assuming it will come with a special FREE! extra-soft banky for edit wars on Wikipedia.
Which leads me to the second reason I love this strip: Because some people actually pored over the second panel and came up with a Magic-Eye style 'F---' . (Just to save you time, it's in the lower right-hand corner - that's actually a '# rock' after panel compression.) Then -- this is the part I love more than anything else -- they called their papers and made a stink about it. And the papers dutifully wafted it over the masses. Leaving an utterly baffled cartoonist in their wake.
Self-fulfilling self-references are wonderful things.