2011-02-26
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Explanation
This comic is titled "How to Infuriate a Math Major" and shows a graph where the y-axis is labeled "Labeled Axes on This Graph." The graph shows a line that rises from 0 to approximately 1, indicating that only one axis (the y-axis) is labeled, while the x-axis has no label at all.
The humor is self-referential and paradoxical. If the graph is accurately reporting that it has one labeled axis, then it is correct -- but the fact that only one axis is labeled would indeed annoy any math or science student trained to always label both axes. The graph is simultaneously an example of the very problem it describes, making it a clever visual joke about standards of mathematical rigor and proper graph formatting.