So I think I am now going to be encouraging people to move on over to the xkcd:could be better! message board and post there rather than here. It's more conducive to the sort of thing we're trying to get at here.

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Ben e-mailed me with some edited xkcds he made - he's limited himself by only erasing words (more of a garfield-minus-garfield feel) but hey, it's all good. Click 'em for bigger versions, etc, and of course, send me your own.






































What occurred to me, of course, was that for the "i'm locked out of my house" comic, the last two panels should read, "I take it the doorbell doesn't work?" "No, it broke about a month ago. Should get that fixed."

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  1. This one is probably too meta.

    (See also: alternative version a friend made. I like mine better, though.)

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  2. I love how in this version the beret man goes out at night with his telescope to search for something BEYOND THE VISIBLE UNIVERSE.

    Wait... it occurs to me he was doing that anyway, but the punchline-free version just makes that more clear. Randall, you fool!

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  3. In Randall's defense (never thought I'd say those words), the guy also believed his mother was a supermassive object (now that I think about it, I am surprised Randall resisted the "your mom" joke here) pulling everything toward her, so...

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  4. Btw, jgrafton, didn't Davis do one Garfield comic where Garfield was all alone in a dilapidated house and kept seeing things? (This happened right—I'm not crazy?) Not exactly dadaist, but something.

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  5. Cuddlyfish: Yep. http://www.retrojunk.com/details_articles/997/

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  6. On October 23, 1989, Garfield creator Jim Davis came up with a concept. To have a series of Comic strips that had no humor to them.

    Dammit, Jim Davis that was my birthday =(

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  7. Young'un! Get off my lawn! etc.

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  8. On October 23, 1989, Garfield creator Jim Davis came up with a concept. To have a series of Comic strips that had no humor to them.

    Unfortunately, nobody noticed any difference.
    OH SNAP!

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  9. "Dammit, Jim Davis that was my birthday =("

    Hey, that's my brother's birthday!
    We should have sex.

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  10. ooo Totally! Just name the time and place.

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