Subnormality

[jack]

A webcomic I just found, from two people linking to individual strips, but that is well drawn, and in a fairly small run has a number of classic strips:

The home of Adolf Hitler, 1933. Doubt creeps in.
Painstakingly created the exact opposite of Mahatma Gandhi
Newspaper stand[1]
Speed dating a pro wrestler
"The Jackbooted Thugs"
Friday evening at the Spinx's house
"Hello, I want to buy a bookcase, please."
16th century Russian Howitzer
The ATHEIST apocalypse!
The emperors' [sic] new clothes, each as metaphor for current cultural trends.
Opposite world

[1] I kept wondering why this URL wasn't loading correctly, until I realised "page404" did not refer to an http error :)

And for the set-up in the first panels more than the punchline:

Entrance to hell
An alternate reality, in which people's physical size is directly proportional to their level of intelligence

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I like the sign over the entrance to Hell.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too, there's just something about the phrasing, you can just hear the minimum-wage demon weary of hearing that excuse 6 biln times :)

That's the bit that got me to post it. I nearly didn't, as it seemed strange to post a comic for a wonderful bit early on, as it feels like inviting people to say "Wuh? The punchline isn't that great. Why did Jack post that? Does he have a weird sense of humour?" But:

(a) The I-have-a-weird-sense-of-humour boat sailed already, packed with maximal lemons.
(b) It doesn't seem fair to miss it out.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

TBH I don't get the rest of the hell one at all. The <title> indicates a connection to bowling shoe hire but still: “huh?”

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Me neither. I think the idea is to imply bowling shoes really, really suck, but I'm not positive. (There used to be comments somewhere, but it moved to a new site and I can't find them. But I didn't get any more certain impression than that when I read them before.)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I could understand the damned being used as bowling pins, or as bowling balls after the heads were removed, but not them doing the bowling themselves.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

:)

I think the idea is that whatever they're going to have to do, bowling or not, they also have to do it wearing sweaty, stained, badly fitting, embarrassing shoes. Like, "Wow, every detail...". But I'm not sure.

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Very funny :-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Thank you.