the-rub
Explanation
This comic riffs on Shakespeare's famous "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from Hamlet, using it as a vehicle for a joke about how great works of literature are hiding in plain sight, unread and unappreciated.
In the opening panel, a character wishes she could "just get Shakespeare in plain, modern language" so she could understand what's going on. Her companion points out that Shakespeare actually isn't that hard to read once you get past the surface. He then recites the "To be or not to be" soliloquy, translating it on the fly: the speech is about whether it's better to endure life's suffering or to end it, and the thing that stops us is fear of the unknown after death. He shows that the meaning is quite accessible.
The comic then pivots to the real joke. He notes that Shakespeare is "sometimes like a riddle" where you have to work a bit, "but the real bump in the road is just reading it" in the first place. The final panel delivers the punchline: Shakespeare literally wrote a massive body of famous, beautiful works, and "nobody notices" -- meaning most people never actually read the plays, so the supposed difficulty of the language is a moot point. The real barrier isn't comprehension; it's that people simply don't pick up the book.
The humor plays on the irony that people complain about Shakespeare being too hard to understand, when the actual problem is that almost nobody reads him at all. The title "The Rub" is itself a Shakespeare reference -- "Ay, there's the rub" comes from the very soliloquy being discussed.