Wondermark, a comic strip

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I have come to find it very amusing, mostly due to this one:

http://www.wondermark.com/comics/270.gif

For images-off people:

http://www.wondermark.com/comics/270.gif

― nabisco, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

STILL SO EXCITED, YOU GUYS

― nabisco, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

More I like:

http://www.wondermark.com/comics/268.gif
http://www.wondermark.com/comics/266.gif
http://www.wondermark.com/comics/258.gif
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― nabisco, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Heh. I dunno if it's like this everywhere, but in Chicago this strip is in the back of The Onion, right next to "Cathy" en espanol.

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

It's sort of like Get Your War On, isn't it? Except I like that the humor seems to beyond "look, corporate-handbook illustrations are SWEARING."

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

These are great!

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.wondermark.com/comics/248.gif
http://www.wondermark.com/comics/241.gif

And funny pair:
http://www.wondermark.com/comics/236.gif
http://www.wondermark.com/comics/237.gif

― nabisco, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.wondermark.com/comics/233.gif

― nabisco, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.wondermark.com/comics/230.gif
http://www.wondermark.com/comics/228.gif
http://www.wondermark.com/comics/226.gif
http://www.wondermark.com/comics/223.gif

Hahaha:
http://www.wondermark.com/comics/222.gif

(I'm just going to keep doing this for a while, don't mind me.)

― nabisco, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait, actually THIS was the first one that started me liking this:

http://www.wondermark.com/comics/218.gif

― nabisco, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. This is ME.
http://www.wondermark.com/comics/169.gif

― Fluffy Bear, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

The chimp-with-glasses one...OMG! Bellylaughs!

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

link the chimp with glasses one.

dammit, i will not let my friday night turn into hours of webcomic reading...again.

― Gukbe, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.wondermark.com/comics/123.gif
http://www.wondermark.com/comics/123.gif

― kenan, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.wondermark.com/comics/153.gif

― Sock Puppet, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

these are OK but they need more swearing

― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

nah, they're great! Good find.

― unfished business, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

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http://www.wondermark.com/comics/119.gif
http://www.wondermark.com/comics/147.gif

― nabisco, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

And ...

http://www.wondermark.com/d/149.html

― nabisco, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

OMG TUNA IS KEWL

― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

haha 8 million freakin times

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

omg the janey's honour one is awesome!

― unfished business, Saturday, 3 March 2007 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.wondermark.com/comics/231.gif

If you hold your mouse over each comic on the actual website an authorial addition appears in the text-box, which of course makes it even greater!

― unfished business, Saturday, 3 March 2007 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, this is like Get Your War On only funny!

― HI DERE, Saturday, 3 March 2007 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

How have we all missed this since 2003?!

― unfished business, Saturday, 3 March 2007 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

nabisco, can you post a link AND a pic, so I don't have to keep copying and pasting?

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

also, thanks, this is awesome, and even though it's in the reader, i only read that for movie times.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/101/161za1.gif

― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 3 March 2007 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

I hate to be a buzzkill, but there is nothing really funny about any of these.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 3 March 2007 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

It's like that shitty Dinosaurs comic only exactly like that shitty Dinosaurs comic.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 3 March 2007 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

Weird!! I saw this strip in The Onion, but didn't catch it's name. As I read the title of this thread, I thought, I wonder what the name of that comic from The Onion is...? And then I clicked on this thread and Lo! it was revealed.

― Jesse, Saturday, 3 March 2007 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, Whiney, but you need to really convince me as to why these strips aren't funny. And I'm not easily amused.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, 3 March 2007 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

This strip is pretty much TURN OF THE CENTURY IMAGES JUXTAPOSED WITH MODERN CONCEPTS = FUNNY.

It depends on the reader thinking that concept is inherently funny, so no matter what text you fill the balloons with, it gets a laugh. Take the Atkins/Marcarena strip. The only reason that's "funny" (it's not, btw) is because LOL STATIC IMAGES ADOPTING FADS. Whereas if you took the shittiest strip in say, Foxtrot, and turned it into a cartoon, or a sitcom, or a piece of sketch comedy, the joke could still translate. This strip lives and dies on how funny you think it is to do fake "old-timey" talk.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Um, no. The reason the Macarena strip is funny is because the son is complaining about the mom's behavior to the dad, who is also doing the same thing. The humor is enhanced by the fact that the od-timey pic of the woman does actually look like the Macarena but that's not the foundation of the joke.

In a similar way,the sandwich board strip is funny because the guys are all communicating like they were Shirt Tails rejects, not solely because of the juxtaposition of dialogue and the old-timey clip art.

― HI DERE, Saturday, 3 March 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Whiney G. Weingarten you sure are a stupid moron

― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 3 March 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.wondermark.com/comics/241.gif
http://www.wondermark.com/comics/241.gif

This one is completely built on the text and not at all related to difference between the captions and the pictures.

― HI DERE, Saturday, 3 March 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

that is pretty comprehensive ownage! i'm impressed.

http://www.wondermark.com/comics/016.gif

― unfished business, Saturday, 3 March 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Holding your mouse over these to get the alternate text is U&K.

― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 3 March 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

I must ask again -- who is Whiney G. Weingarten, and does this person not die?

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Among other things, he's the main dude behind Paper Thin Walls, which means I cut him a little slack, since we might not be here otherwise.

― jaymc, Saturday, 3 March 2007 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

ok, fine.

This strip lives and dies on how funny you think it is to do fake "old-timey" talk.

OMG THAT'S SO STUPID rips eyes out runs down hall

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

You guys are all aware of Married To The Sea, right? It makes much better use of of old-timey clip art, imho.

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/022506/doublefish.jpg

― 31g, Saturday, 3 March 2007 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

he's the main dude behind Paper Thin Walls

production or direction? I will give love to the money man, for making it happen. Whoever coded this thing is... I'll stop myself from slinging hate speech, and say that this person got a large, even astonishing, number of things wrong. Things that should have been easy.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Whiney G. Weingarten you sure are a stupid moron

One of the symptoms of autism is that those afflicted don't "get" jokes that normal people do. So, yes, you may have to cut Mr. Whiney a bit of slack.

― libcrypt, Saturday, 3 March 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

that poor bastard.

He's in charge of what, again? The hosting of this site?

oh no.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.wondermark.com/d/262.html

― fies, Saturday, 3 March 2007 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

I think we should stab Whiney in the eyes repeatedly, as he does not share our opinions.
This is appropriate.

― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 3 March 2007 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

kenan really doesn't get bored of sitting around being a fanny

― RJG, Saturday, 3 March 2007 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

DIFFERENCE IS BAD

― max, Saturday, 3 March 2007 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

I can't think of anything less worthwhile than actually arguing over whether a comic strip is funny or not, but I do kind of want to note that I don't think the humor comes solely from the juxtaposition of old images + modern talk: these amuse me mostly because the modern talk itself is pretty funny! A lot of these I'd laugh at probably no matter how they were illustrated (like the "you're not an artist" / "but I have a Mac!" one).

― nabisco, Sunday, 4 March 2007 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

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fridge magnet one = uncontrollable real laughter

― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 16:55 (seventeen years ago)

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I'll stop now

― nabisco, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 17:04 (seventeen years ago)

rolling Masthead Herald zing thread 2009

― da cryypiä (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 17:54 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

The making of a Wondermark strip compressed into 2 minutes:

http://vimeo.com/channel16489

― Dr More BS (libcrypt), Thursday, 22 January 2009 08:30 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

http://wondermark.com/489/

loooooooooooooooooooooooooool

― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Thursday, 26 February 2009 21:50 (seventeen years ago)

.......

― obi don quixote (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 26 February 2009 21:56 (seventeen years ago)

really?

― obi don quixote (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 26 February 2009 21:56 (seventeen years ago)

dp's had a long day.

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

fuck all y'all

― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:50 (seventeen years ago)

i gotcha back dan

― bitch hooligan, pussy ass nobrain dårk (country matters), Thursday, 26 February 2009 23:02 (seventeen years ago)

i lold

― max, Thursday, 26 February 2009 23:05 (seventeen years ago)

Audio interview with David Malki !

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Thursday, 26 February 2009 23:06 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Met this guy today at the Stumptown Comics Fest. Cool dude, and I bought two volumes of his absurdist Victorian stories.

― kingfish, Monday, 20 April 2009 05:21 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

oh wow:

http://wondermark.com/509/

― nabisco, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 22:47 (seventeen years ago)

Read his novels; they're fun

― kingfish, Thursday, 7 May 2009 01:37 (seventeen years ago)

http://wondermark.com/c/2009-04-14-507tiger.gif

― Mark G, Thursday, 7 May 2009 13:53 (seventeen years ago)

four weeks pass...

http://wondermark.com/c/2009-05-12-514waiter.gif

OTMFM

― man saves ducklings from (ledge), Friday, 5 June 2009 14:12 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

http://wondermark.com/546/

― a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:51 (seventeen years ago)

i like to remember this thread shortly after remembering the ire dan heaps on achewood

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 21:23 (seventeen years ago)

I don't heap ire on Achewood, I heap ire on Achewood fans endlessly quoting it nonstop! Achewood is... okay.

― a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 21:24 (seventeen years ago)

you cold have a peter in your mouth!!!

― the people vs peer gynt (goole), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

http://wondermark.com/558/

back off, haters

― The Book of Outhere (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

this comic is pretty much a four panel version of

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/7/79/HA_HA_GUY.jpg

― the gooney swaguccki (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 19:53 (seventeen years ago)

or swarm like locusts, whatever's cool with you

― The Book of Outhere (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

whiney you're pretty much the ilx version of

http://www.thevancouverite.com/pictures/nelson-muntz.gif

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

i laughed at the camel jokes

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

xpost - I lol'd

― the gooney swaguccki (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:01 (seventeen years ago)

Never disappointed.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 21:28 (seventeen years ago)

the lettering is awful in this

― thomp, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

YES THAT MATTERS

― thomp, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 22:03 (seventeen years ago)

you just sarcasm'd yourself?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 22:48 (seventeen years ago)

hahahaha ok i laughed aloud at that one dan...but then i do like wondermark a LOT

― kell surprise (country matters), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 22:54 (seventeen years ago)

that thing read like some Monty Python sketch ...

― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 22:59 (seventeen years ago)

^^^first thing that crossed my mind

― butt sound insanity (gbx), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:00 (seventeen years ago)

i wonder if steampunk people like it

― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:00 (seventeen years ago)

seriously this is like the steampunk version of Red Meat

― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:05 (seventeen years ago)

but the thing is that it is completely grounded in reality or at least a worldy-wise sensibility, hence the steampunk thing is a total misnomer

― kell surprise (country matters), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

dude, the website calls it a "jocularity" which has that same precious turn-of-the-century whimsy going for it like steampunk

― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

but it's using that whimsy in a totally flip and insincere way; it's erased in favour of real-life-related lolz within 3 seconds of actually reading the damn thing

― kell surprise (country matters), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:25 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah nah, this is nothing like steampunk and Louis is OTM.

― ceci n'est pas une pipecock (Trayce), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:27 (seventeen years ago)

Unless every steampunk I've ever seen is doing it for the lulz... and somehow, I dont think they are :/

― ceci n'est pas une pipecock (Trayce), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:28 (seventeen years ago)

its choice of topics and scenarios are totally in keeping with the interests and aesthetics of steampunk aficionados, not to mention the overall aesthetic of the website and clip art.

― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:29 (seventeen years ago)

haha you know what this conversation is beginning to resemble? yeah. a wondermark strip.

― kell surprise (country matters), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:32 (seventeen years ago)

all i'm saying is that the people i know who are really into steampunk probably love this thing, if they've seen it.

― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:36 (seventeen years ago)

I like it and I think steampunk is a load of old cobblers.

― ceci n'est pas une pipecock (Trayce), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:39 (seventeen years ago)

i think you're in denial about your inner steampunk ; )

― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:40 (seventeen years ago)

"steampunk red meat" is t-bomb for all time, srahel

― the gooney swaguccki (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:47 (seventeen years ago)

eh, i think i'm still resenting lj for giving fish on pizza a bad rep

― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:49 (seventeen years ago)

did he jack off an anchovy or something?

― the gooney swagzuki (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:53 (seventeen years ago)

apparently he also ate pizza with lettuce on it, rendering all toppings he liked on pizza suspect and worthy of derision

― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:54 (seventeen years ago)

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