[ SECRET POST #2869 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2869 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 061 secrets from Secret Submission Post #410.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/pM28Swm.png

[raspberryrain]

Does it have to be mocking anyone?

[a_potato]

It could be that they're just...bad jokes.

[solticisekf]

Why the guy with the lights looks so depressed? I don't get the second comic either.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

They're not separate comics. The guy with the lights wrote a depressing memoir about his childhood being raised by a sci-fi author. The blue guy is a big fan of the sci-fi author, and he's reading the memoir. I don't know whether it's making fun of old-fashioned science fiction, the modern style of dreary graphic novel memoir, the kinds of people who read and analyze science fiction novels, or all of those at once.

Re: OP

[solticisekf]

That's some meta. oO A world inside a world and some aliens thrown in.

But one knows that they like it, when they try to make sense of the comic and find the elusive joke.)

[(Anonymous)]

What comic is this?

OP

[(Anonymous)]

It's called Unwinder's Tall Comics.

[(Anonymous)]

I have no idea what these are but I don't get them either, so if you're being mocked OP then apparently so am I.

[(Anonymous)]

neither of these strips makes sense and neither of them are funny

[(Anonymous)]

Link for people interested in what OP is talking about: http://tallcomics.com/?id=100

Regarding secret: I've seen this kind of humor before, and I generally think it doesn't "viciously mock" anything. It's more like creating a semi-surreal atmosphere by ribbing/parodying/surreally combining tropes, patterns, phenomena, caricatures, etc. found in real life -- a variety of random humor. Reading it, I would say it's poking fun at some sci fi nerdiness/tropes (the Rastov test, which also parodies the Bechdel test) at points, poking some fun at the alien who reads a biography of an author and then overreads everything in the author's books to be a reflection of that author's personal life (going from something plausibly insightful (book architecture reveals some fantasy fulfillment on the author's part) to something inane (that basic sci fi laundry somehow ties into something personal about the author)). I'm not familiar with graphic novel memoirs, but it could very well be poking fun at those as well in the choice of vignettes and the style of the narration, especially at the beginning. But it's not really mocking (and not viciously), more like it finds humor in the invocation of the tropes, and it's funny if you understand the trope they're playing with. Like a pop culture reference except a nerd culture reference instead?

I don't understand the alien's last reaction at all. :/ I've read comics similar to this where the humor is very low-key and relies on surrealness, and it flies over my head a lot.

[(Anonymous)]

THANK you. Jesus, I was starting to think I was the only one around here who can analyze anything via any means besides deciding which box to cram it into.