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 almost 11 years ago
Talk about meta
Kamino Neko almost 11 years ago
Silly Jason, that should be a ???, not a !!!
tsandl almost 11 years ago
“Amused chuckle followed by entry of odd comment.”
rdh288 almost 11 years ago
I love how panels five and six are the same thing :)
scyphi26 almost 11 years ago
Okay, can’t say I’ve ever seen it done quite like this in a comic strip before.
foyers almost 11 years ago
It fits the pattern of a “Knock, knock… Who’s there?” joke
bryan42 almost 11 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 almost 11 years ago
There putting on so much pressure, I can hear the fourth wall crying.
rgcviper almost 11 years ago
OK—now this one was clever. Made me smile.
vldazzle almost 11 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 almost 11 years ago
The foxtrot comics really do work that way.
Michelle Morris almost 11 years ago
I see. (Sorry,Comic Minister!)
RyRin365 almost 11 years ago
See Da Vinci’s Notebook – Title of the Song
Doctor11 almost 11 years ago
Well, THAT’S ironic.
JP Steve Premium Member almost 11 years ago
I just compared last Sunday’s strip with this model — the fit is almost perfect!
gimmickgenius almost 11 years ago
“! ! !” ? Must be a comic strip by Al Hartley.
chaosandcake almost 11 years ago
Banal comment referencing premise.
pharclar over 10 years ago
Clever comment relating to the punchline that adds on to the joke.
undava about 6 years ago
Ahem, and the irony. Punchline
We don’t do that here almost 5 years ago
Some clever title
SuperCharged5- over 3 years ago
4th wall
phoenixnyc about 3 years ago
I hope he gave the Neo-Futurists royalties for this gag……
Josequeen almost 3 years ago
Hah… ‘pretending’.
DevilDog2001 Premium Member over 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 8 months ago
Put some words into the speech bubbles, guys!