# Are these comics funny? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 13, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575 "2016-12-13T01:38:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/61 "2016-12-14T15:00:15Z")
Zero funny. And I could not hate the artwork more. mmm ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/62 "2016-12-14T17:02:13Z")
Artwork is fine, comics aren’t funny. But it wasn’t painful like Ziggy, Family Circus, or that freakin’ Rose. > [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > The strip about the dog not fitting, was that a sex joke? He thinks he’s set her up perfectly for a “that’s what she said” joke, and she doesn’t want to say it because…humor? Not sure. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/63 "2016-12-14T17:34:15Z")
Make me want to fwow up ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/64 "2016-12-14T17:39:26Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > He thinks he’s set her up perfectly for a “that’s what she said” joke, and she doesn’t want to say it because…humor? Not sure. I think the joke is more supposed to be that we’re to interpret the panels of silence with her eyes narrowing as her waiting for him to comment on the innuendo of what he said with the implication that she disapproves and then the reversal is that she is just as amused at the innuendo as he is. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/65 "2016-12-14T18:26:16Z")
No. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > WAG: Female readers are going to respond a lot more positively to these, on the average, than male readers. > > At least, I can imagine them appealing to a certain type of person. I am not of that type. Yeah, I really don’t think women will find these funny either. The artist is a woman, sure, but a very unfunny woman. Maybe a 12 year old girl might like this? I don’t know, it’s been a long time since I was 12, so I don’t know what kids find funny anymore. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/66 "2016-12-14T18:56:47Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I think the joke is more supposed to be that we’re to interpret the panels of silence with her eyes narrowing as her waiting for him to comment on the innuendo of what he said with the implication that she disapproves and then the reversal is that she is just as amused at the innuendo as he is. Given the depth of the comic, I was thinking it was a more existential humor, commenting on the hole within all our souls that can never be filled except by the sweet release of death, so best to laugh while we still can. Or you might be right. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/67 "2016-12-14T19:32:08Z")
It wasn’t an anal joke? ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/68 "2016-12-14T20:06:58Z")
Ugh, I saw them on Reddit a few days ago; and all I could think was that they reminded me of those God awful figurines from the 70s that would show a little boy and girl doing something cutesy and the figurine would say “Love Is… [something stupid goes here].” Precious Moments figurines maybe? Blech ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/69 "2016-12-14T20:20:22Z")
\*\*Are these comics funny? \*\* In a word, no. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/70 "2016-12-14T20:20:57Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > The comics are improved if you assume the bearded guy is Jesus. And worsened slightly if you assume he’s the girl’s grandfather. ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/71 "2016-12-15T06:45:08Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > And worsened slightly if you assume he’s the girl’s grandfather. I made an edit of the nightmare one. Still not funny… ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/72 "2016-12-15T10:30:59Z")
As I understand it there are thousands of comic artists out there struggling to get their work out. This person just found another nitch. To me its actually nice to see something different. I’ve long tired of Zits, Cathy, Doonesbury, Family Circus, Pearls before Swine, and others. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/73 "2016-12-19T04:27:30Z")
Um, no. Just…no. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/74 "2016-12-20T02:12:08Z")
[Here’s an example of this comic genre that is also big on Reddit–and hated by equally as many people.](http://m.imgur.com/gallery/Cu6J3) [And here’s the one I was thinking of, which is closer to the same style.](https://tapastic.com/episode/539499) (as she has a boyfriend) Someone at Reddit refers to it as Cathy style comics. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/75 "2016-12-20T02:23:37Z")
Not funny, not cute, not nohow. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575/76 "2016-12-20T02:24:06Z")
[Better link for the first comics](http://c-cassandra.tumblr.com/). should’ve Googled the artist first. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-comics-funny/774575.md?page=3)