• 5too@lemmy.world
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      These seem more in an absurdist vein of comedy to me, rather than having or needing a particular punch line

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      My guess is that it’s a cynical take on optimism and maybe hustle-culture. Whatever people say, it’s futile anyway.

      But maybe I’m just too dumb to get the “jokes” buried somewhere in them.😁

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      There was a series of these for a while on reddit on r/comics, and people would routinely hop into the comics to ask “wtf is going on?” and give their opinion on whether or not they like or dislike this brand of storytelling (aka random ‘snapshots’ of a story with nothing between them. It would be like reading a book by flipping to random pages and reading just that page, basically.)

      Anyway I was pretty certain that it was the same artist making these, and I’m pretty much 99% sure I’m right because I found the ol reddit collection here: https://imginn.com/blujayooo/

      I remember at the time being more on the annoyed side because some of the ‘issues’ had some pretty interesting stuff going on and I would have liked an actual story to go with them, but I find myself feeling pretty neutral about it now, mostly because I’m NOT invested or interested this go around.