I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in a different time period or whether my sense of humor is just misaligned, or if it’s just that I don’t have the background necessary, but I don’t understand shit.
I don’t get any of the jokes, some are just completely undecipherable, and some comics just leave me feeling stupid as hell.
How do you guys understand any of this? What do the user demographics of this community look like?
Is this a government psyop? Are these comics evidence trails to hire super smart cryptography detectives like Cicada 3301? Are they memetic triggers for activating sleeper agents? To be honest I think I’d feel better if it was.
I honestly think this is the intention a lot of the time. I don’t think the right approach is to expect a punchline in every comic (some definitely do have one though). Sometimes I think he has just thought of something absurd and weird, drawn it and put it out there.
Like one that makes me laugh is ‘The crew of the Starship Enterprise are confronted with the giant head of Zsa Zsa Gabor’. It just shows the massive face of a woman floating in space while the Star Trek crew run round panicking. I don’t even know who she is but I’m guessing old movie star/model. It’s just a completely mad situation so it makes me laugh
In original Star Trek, the crew would often come upon some random-ass shit floating in the middle of space, put it up on the view screen, and take it completely seriously – see for instance “Who Mourns for Adonais”, featuring the giant floating head of the Greek god Apollo, or “The Savage Curtain”, featuring Abraham Lincoln floating in a chair. I think the comic is just a dumb reference to that intrinsically absurd aspect of the show.