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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (19 children)

Needs a punchline. That last panel is completely pointless and wastes a good setup imo.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think it's fine as it is. It's trading funny for poignanncy

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Except the last panel isn't poignant either. Like I said, it's useless. It would be just as poignant without it, and if they had actually written a punchline, it could have been funny too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You have a point, the last panel adds nothing. But for most readers it doesn't make it worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

But it doesn't make it better for anyone, and it does make it worse for the rest of us, so...

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