bring-back
Explanation
This comic features a necromancer (or similar magical figure) who has the power to bring dead people back to life. Someone asks if they can bring back famous writers. The necromancer explains that writers like Charles Dickens were paid by the word, leading to "endless novellas, giant stories, essays" -- and that many writers were similarly prolific because of the economic incentives and cultural norms of their eras. They can bring them back, but "sometimes" they lose something in translation.
The person then asks "What about poets?" and the necromancer explains that most of your favorite poets were suicidal, alcoholic, or mentally ill, and that "fully one-third of famous poets died before 40." The implication is that bringing them back would be ethically fraught -- you'd be resurrecting people who were deeply troubled.
The humor works on multiple levels. First, it uses the fantasy premise of necromancy to set up what is essentially literary criticism and literary history. The joke is that actually understanding the real lives and circumstances of beloved historical authors makes the idea of resurrecting them far more complicated than it seems. It pokes fun at the romanticized notion of great writers by confronting it with the often grim biographical realities -- Dickens getting paid by the word (hence the length of his serialized novels) and the well-documented association between poetry and mental illness. The necromancer's matter-of-fact tone about these dark facts adds to the comedy.