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This comic plays on the fantasy trope of heirloom weapons being passed down through generations. In the first panel, an older figure tells a young person: "Young Ted, this was your father's lightsaber

This comic begins with what appears to be a medieval or ancient burial scene. A character asks "Whatcha doin'?" and another responds "Burying my prized possessions!" — a reference to the historical pr

This comic is a bedroom humor strip built around the economic concept of "shrinkflation." In the first panel, a therapist-like figure asks a man lying on a couch: "Before we start, are you familiar wi

This comic is a single-panel joke with a phallic humor punchline. A man stands next to a large dark shape (implied to be enormous) while someone off-panel exclaims: "What the — it's not the size of th

This comic is a multi-panel strip exploring existential dread through the lens of Star Wars fandom. It opens with a character praying: "Dear God, why does everything seem to be falling apart?" God res

This comic addresses fears about AI bias and discrimination. In the first panel, a woman is outraged at her computer screen: "God this stupid AI is so offensive! It's so thoroughly trained on men it l

This comic depicts what appears to be a group of nerds or geeks making aggressive, guttural noises — "GRRRGH HRRNG!!" — as if engaged in some kind of primal dominance display. The characters are drawn

## The Joke A businessman presents a chart to colleagues, proudly declaring that "thanks to my computer science driven methods, double digit growth has been achieved once again." The chart shows a li

## The Joke A child asks their father if it's possible to go back in time and meet your own grandfather. The dad says he keeps time-traveling and introducing himself, but his grandfather never seems

## The Joke A character begins writing a letter: "Dear Bees." Someone corrects them: "Don't you mean 'Dear Boss'?" The writer responds: "No. I keep proving to you I'm cool stuff and I get nothing. I'

## The Joke A robot tells a human: "Hey robot, you could've let your country get total advantage in a nuclear arms race, but you chose not to. Why?" The robot explains that there have been points in

## The Joke The comic is a single panel showing Jesus Christ riding a zipline, wearing traditional white robes and sandals, with a joyful expression. The caption reads: "Christ's favorite part of the

## The Joke The top panel is labeled "What commercial advertising led me to believe." A couple walks through a lush forest, exclaiming: "Oh my God, there are wild cherries, wild blueberries, wild gra

## The Joke Two storks stand in a marsh. One asks the other: "Whatcha doing?" The second stork, pecking at something on the ground, replies: "My part." The caption below reveals: "Industrious storks

## The Joke A psychologist tells a patient: "I want you to look at this ink blot and tell me what you see." The patient responds: "I see a pseudoscientific 'testing' method with no empirical validity

## The Joke A child excitedly shows their parent a handful of teeth, saying: "Look, I can do thirty! No more baby teeth! No one else in my class can pull out as many as me! Can you believe it?" The p

## The Joke A woman asks a wealthy-looking man: "You think you'll ever get tired of being rich?" He responds: "I have a G6 jet and another one to carry a garage which has 18 cars in it so I can drive

## The Joke A couple on a date decides they don't enjoy "doing this simulation directly." Instead, they propose building a model of their respective minds and then running the simulation to see what

## The Joke A genie appears before a T. Rex and announces "T. Rex! You may have one wish!" The T. Rex gasps in excitement. Then it makes its wish: "I wish T. Rexes would spend much less time in self-

## The Joke A woman in bed looks at her laptop and exclaims in horror: "What the... they're calling it 'Ass-Expertise-Havers' now? My night is ruined!" Below the panel, a caption reads: "The attempt

## The Joke Someone is discussing John Milton's *Paradise Lost* with what appears to be Milton himself (or a figure representing him). They note that Milton needs to cut the part where Satan, cast in

## The Joke A boss tells an employee "You're fired." The employee protests: "You can't fire me! I'm a machine learning algorithm! You trained me with your parameters! You're the one who made me hard

## The Joke Someone asks a person at a gathering how they manage to stay focused, given that "sitting in an elevator with nothing to do for 30 seconds would normally mean checking your phone, but ins

## The Joke A man nervously asks "Am I... am I sexually inadequate?" A woman responds: "How would I know? We've never had sex." The scene pulls back to reveal they are two people in an audience, appa

## The Joke A person climbs to the top of a mountain to meet a wise master and asks "What is it you seek?" The master answers: "Transcendence." But he then explains that this isn't the spiritual kind

## The Joke A person suggests that AI can do some cool things and that eventually "we'll be able to do something like stand-up comedy." Someone asks "Why?" The first person explains that stand-up req

## The Joke This is a longer-form comic depicting what appears to be a conspiracy theory lecture or presentation. A speaker explains an elaborate conspiracy involving various powerful groups, shadowy

This comic plays on the idea of obsessive perfectionism applied to everyday tools. In the first panel, a character muses that if they could build a time machine, they'd go back and tell their younger

This comic is a riff on job interviews and customer service. A demon (or devil-like figure) is interviewing for a position at a company. When asked what makes them want to work there, the demon explai

This comic shows someone standing near what appears to be a peat bog, being asked "What's in the sack?" They respond with a deliberately bizarre list: "A platypus skeleton, 3 wheels of cheddar, a clay

This comic presents a series of academic experts explaining why ancient human groups migrated. An anthropologist explains a group moved north, driven by intertribal violence. An oceanologist says a ma

This comic takes the modern culture of online reviews to an absurd extreme. A ride-share driver tells a passenger that if they had a good experience, they should leave a five-star review and say somet

This comic riffs on John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and the history of English poetry. The first panel notes that by the 16th edition, "Paradise Lost" had many complaints about the quality of its blank

This comic features a scientist presenting a newly created molecule to colleagues. The molecule has one end region and two cold regions, and was shaped to produce electric haptic sensations -- essenti

This comic contrasts the writing styles of Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway. The Austen panel shows an absurdly convoluted sentence describing "Constance's character number 412, one of the most whose

This comic features a child asking their grandparent how they formed their identity and how they avoided being "part of the herd." The grandparent's answer is darkly honest: one day you wake up and yo

This comic shows a visit to the dentist. When told "How's my teeth?" the dentist responds that the patient's teeth are so bad that their condition cannot be conveyed in straightforward language -- it

## The Joke An older man gives a woman directions to his house: "So the way to our house is to go toward the yellow building over there, straight down the road, because the yellow building is our hou

## The Joke The comic depicts two clowns on what appears to be a date. One clown honks a horn at the other (labeled "HONK HONK"). In subsequent panels, one clown feeds the other with a comically over

## The Joke Investigators are looking at a crime board. One says "Dammit, this guy is a criminal mastermind! There's got to be some pattern to his behavior." Another responds "Wait, quiet, I have it.

## The Joke A woman asks her partner: "Would you ever leave behind reality to enter a pleasure box?" He clarifies: "You mean like with luxuries and servants and so forth?" She explains it further: "I

## The Joke Two people are reading. One says: "Reading Gilgamesh?" and describes the ancient text: "Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest surviving great work of literature, where Enkidu and Gilgamesh meet,

## The Joke A woman says to a man: "I want you to fall back and trust me to catch you." He responds: "Absolutely not." He then explains: "I trust you with our savings. I trust you with the secret tha

## The Joke A character exclaims: "Dammit, this guy is getting all these awards and accolades. Soon he'll get to the point where the crowds will have to acknowledge that he's the greatest." Another c

## The Joke A man kneels in prayer and asks: "God, why is there something and not nothing?" God responds from a heavenly speech bubble: "I mean... there's not THAT much." The caption reads: "A lot of

## The Joke A man proudly proclaims: "Behold! I, the great Jakurinski, have discovered the fundamental law governing pronunciation changes for several sounds in a dialect spoken by coastal Croatians

## The Joke A person asks what appears to be an AI or advanced machine: "Could you instantiate the mind of Dave from work in the form of an edible piece of meat that feels pain?" The machine begins t

## The Joke A child tells their father there's a monster under the bed. The father, lying in bed, responds with a seemingly reasonable counterargument: "Surely a monster with the strength to rip thro

## The Joke A person tells their companion "Oh, I was feeling so anxious today I could hardly breathe." The companion responds enthusiastically: "Wow! You're gonna have such a strong heart from all t

## The Joke Two people are watching birds in the sky. One says "See those vultures? They're kettling." The other asks what that means, and the first explains: "People think they're circling for carri