Brevity is the soul of wit.
This comic has 20 panels.
That’s why all the funny movies are no more than five minutes long
Find me a five minute long joke or a feature length movie with only one joke in it.
It shouldn’t take 20 panels to tell a joke.
It shouldn’t take 20 panels to tell a joke.
Seems like it’s not telling a joke, but instead making a statement about Humanity.
And to deliver this profound message of “people are inherently distrustful” they needed 20 panels.
They could have done this in one. Have each caveman holding out one hand to pass food and the other hand holding a club behind their backs.
Want to really illustrate the groundbreaking idea that people don’t trust each other? Make a second panel with knights replacing the cavemen and swords replacing clubs, then a third panel swapping in businessmen holding pistols.
If humor wasn’t the goal that’s… fine, but being long-winded in a format based on brevity undermines the message. Using 20 panels guarantees that half of the people who bother to look at the comic won’t finish it. Those that do will probably be bored or even resentful that their time was wasted, making them less receptive to the message.
Not everything needs to be rushed. Sometimes the build up makes the conclusion better. Slow the F down.
Agreed. This is not an example of that though.
This is not an example of that though.
How so?
If your comic needs to be long form to build tension, that’s a graphic novel.
Storytelling is storytelling, regardless of the medium.
That’s about all that “civilization” has truly brought us, a chance at more opportunities to steal and hate and kill each other.
That’s about all that “civilization” has truly brought us, a chance at more opportunities to steal and hate and kill each other.
They say, typing on a computer brought to them by civilization.
Yes and computer that I got by let’s say, not standard means, and taking it from a person who thought they were going to be able to use it for their kids (I really did snatch it away from them). And I love that about me, I have no pretense about being “better than others.” I know that human civilization is a mask for people’s innate greed, hate and selfishness.
I have no pretense about being “better than others.”
Well that’s good, because it sounds like you’re a lot worse than others.
Yeah, no. By the sounds of it, you’re a piece of shit and have no right to speak for anyone but your own shitty self. You’re right about one thing; you’re not better than others, you are far worse. Fuck off projecting your awfulness onto everyone else.
At this point you’re not contributing to any civilization. You’re a parasite.
We were pack hunters and lived in societies way before evolving into modern humans.
Right! Has no one paid attention to chimpanzees, baboons, or other primates? Recognizing those like yourself and working together is baked in. Even in species that are even farther away from us, in an evolution sense, we see cooperation.
Other primates form tribes and are extremely tribal and go to war with each other, so we also see that too.
Modern technological human history is only about a hundred years … we were cavemen and acting like scared children for about 50,000 years before and like frightened monkeys for 2 million years before that … we may have landed on the moon but we are closer to our ancient ancestors than to any futuristic highly evolved human society.
We’re more like cavemen with nuclear weapons.
