Kliban by B. Kliban for December 02, 2022

Why can we not read the captions for the people listed?

The data is so shocking it is encoded! For Cartoon Eyes Only!

Cursive, secret writing for oldtimers.

I drew up a comic format fake ad (for the ‘Vince Carter School of Romance’) with a few testimonials in tiny scribbled type, where some folks were attempting to read it.

Looks like an homage to Steinberg.

Just wait until you see the Lore for these individuals.

It’s a lie! Not one of those looks like Brent Spiner.

This must be what cursive looks like to the younger generations.

So the joke is…that these random people look kinda funny?

I suspect that I have suffered a stroke.

But I’ll be it’s really funny!

[long] Back in the day, Alfred Bester was writing a radio serial. He wriote in a character that spoke gibberish. One day he was listening to the show and noticed that the actor was using different gibberish than what he’d written.

Intrigued, he talked to the producer. He was told that they knew he was a pervert and was trying to get the network in trouble by sneaking in dirty words disguised as ‘gibberish.’

A few episodes later, he introduced a character named ‘Mr. Merkin.’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkin

for the lazy

Cross-hatching skill!

When and if the NSA sees this comic, there’ll be hell to pay! How’d Kliban hack their most secret dossiers?