Yeah, that would kind of destroy the joke though…
Oh, I dunno. I think including the one bouncing line is a visual and thematic improvement.
If you really want to get picky.
Fonda and the Joseph Sweeney (jurors 8 and 9) share a scene on their own at the end of the movie.
I really like the comic and would put it up as a poster in my toilet if I wasn’t a very lazy so and so 
The chart is based on the movies, not the books, so it doesn’t get that far. You’ll notice that it has Saruman dying during the Two Towers, rather than at the end of the book, like really happened.
I love every little bit of it, for it’s geekery and funny. But, if you really think about it, the character lines for Primer should be splitting off for all the clones of themselves the time machine makes of them. But that would just weigh the funny down in that last pane.
That’s what I thought, too.
Truly impressive, though I think it would have been nice if he had Obiwan’s ghost in there too.
I wonder what all six would look like, including the ghosts.
I can imagine the Luke and Leia lines popping out of Padme’s line, which expires soon after.
If Munroe offered a full-size poster print of the LoTR graphic I’d totally buy one.
Yeah. There is an actual primer timeline graph though, and it is crazy.
As it happens, he does that now and then. So, I’d keep checking back.
P.S. that was in response to UncleRojelio.
He almost certainly will. In the store he offers prints and posters of his most popular and visually notable. A cynic might suggest that he made this comic mostly for the eventual revenues of those sales.
However he completely ignores the silly Aragorn “dying” when forced off the cliff by the wargs and the annoying river scene.
Incidentally, his Black armies are poorly represented too. In the Breaking of the Fellowship and Helms Deep battle there are Mordor-Orcs and Uruk-hai. In the battle of Plennor Fields there are similar numbers of Orcs and Southrons/Eastrons and the final Army at the Black Gate is the largest of all the forces.
In addition, characters go back and forth from the jury room to the bathroom a few times.
Cool, as soon as it appears I’ll get it and the “height” poster.
I admit to having an XKCD print on my office wall. It’s the Boom-De-Ah-Dah one that’s a parody-homage to the Discovery Channel commercial. I offered him $15 or somesuch for it and got it in the mail, autographed and with a stick figure self portrait, a short while later.
Personally, I’ve got a theory that the humor of a joke, to those who get it, is inversely proportional to the number of people in the general population who would get it. I know that when I tell physics jokes to groups of physicists, I always get good reactions, even when the jokes themselves aren’t all that intrinsically funny.
So it is with XKCD. A lot of the jokes are obscure enough that almost nobody gets them, so those of us who do find them hilarious.
Yeah, I’ve heard this before too, but I can’t remember where. The obscurity of a ref definitely adds to the entertainment value, which is partially why geeks can amuse themselves for hours quoting lines from movies and books at each other even though there’s nothing all that…funny about it.
Racetrack PA announcer: “And the winner is number three, in a quantum finish!”
Professor Farnsworth: “No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!”
