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Thursday Fun Link

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.16.2006 3:27 PM

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On the off-chance that I'm not the only fan of the Comics Curmudgeon around here, dig the ultimate in popular culture specialization: Matt's Silent Penultimate Panel Watch.

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  1. mk   19 years ago
  2. independent worm   19 years ago
  3. Uncle Lumpy   19 years ago

    !! !

  4. Garth   19 years ago

    X: "What are you doing?"
    Y: "Blogging about silent second to last panels!"
    Y: [bubble]?[/bubble]
    X: "Because it is a standard and annoying formula!"

  5. Garth   19 years ago

    Dang! Reverse the last two x & y:

    X: "What are you doing?"
    Y: "Blogging about silent second to last panels!"
    X: [bubble]?[/bubble]
    Y: "Because it is a standard and annoying formula!"

  6. smacky   19 years ago

    Damn! This Matt guy is on the ball. I guess there go my minor aspirations of ever becoming a comic strip cartoonist. That's easily one of the biggest tricks in the bag*, uncovered and exposed for all to see and mock.

    *At least for mediocre comic strips - hey, I have low aspirations.

  7. smacky   19 years ago
  8. Jeff P.   19 years ago

    Next up: A site about punchlines that begin on the penultimate panel...

    ...and end on the last.

  9. Sandy   19 years ago

    In a similar vein, here are Garfield cartoons with Garfield's bubbles erased. It improves the cartoon greatly, turning it into a French surrealist piece about the emptiness of John's life.

    Take that, Lazy Muncie.

  10. smacky   19 years ago

    Sandy,

    That was great! Almost had me in tears. Thank you.

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