Comic 880: Randall's April Fools

Alt-text: I'm only willing to visit placid lakes, salt flats, and painting exhibits until the world's 3D technology improves.

Well, Randall's shitty art style actually gives him a leg up in his April Fools joke. The 3D program that he got someone to write adds absolutely nothing to his comics, and in fact makes most of them far worse. Just like in the films! Seriously, if that had been the main gist of this comic, it would've got a passing grade. Ragging on 3D effects is by no means a new joke, but this satirical execution is fairly clever and original.

But no, that isn't the main joke of the comic. Instead it's this 'haha, the real world is in 3D too!' bullshit. It's the sort of asinine observation you hear when with a group of friends at the cinema. Someone will put on the glasses, look around the lobby and say 'wow, everything's in 3D!", someone else will slap them down and we all get on with our lives. It's a bad joke even in a context where bad jokes are tolerated.

So Randall decides to base a comic on it.

Never mind. On a more positive note, this is yet another of his recent comics in which he rejects Megan. Has he accepted that he will never have her, and the comics are balancing out as a result? Or is it going to descend into violent, internet-based nerd rage against her? I know which one I'm hoping for.

BINGO TIME!

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That was a sterling effort for such a small comment thread, and all because Rob wrote a standard 'review'.