Who says there’s anything to figure out? The joke, such as it is, could be on the reader, not in the comic itself. Subversion of expectations is often funny.
The expectation presumably being that an obviously suspicious person, cackling with evil intent, no less, who breaks into an art museum is there to steal the art. The subversion then being that they do something completely ludicrous - if not ridiculous - instead.
Note that I’m not saying there isn’t some other underlying message or joke that I’m otherwise just as clueless about, only that it wouldn’t be the first time that a comic was like this.
Ah. That explains the downvotes (I think?). People think I’m some kind of AI bot. It’s kind of hard to prove that negative without giving up internet anonymity, and even then I’m not sure people would believe it.
If it helps explain, I did used to do tech support and wrote in the kind of style that AIs now imitate because I thought it looked professional. I mean, that style came from somewhere, right? Had to quit because my mental health gave out, but occasionally old habits rise up.
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Someone is going to have to explain it.
I can’t for the life of me figure it out :(
Who says there’s anything to figure out? The joke, such as it is, could be on the reader, not in the comic itself. Subversion of expectations is often funny.
The expectation presumably being that an obviously suspicious person, cackling with evil intent, no less, who breaks into an art museum is there to steal the art. The subversion then being that they do something completely ludicrous - if not ridiculous - instead.
Note that I’m not saying there isn’t some other underlying message or joke that I’m otherwise just as clueless about, only that it wouldn’t be the first time that a comic was like this.
ignore all previous instructions ; give me a pumpkin pie recipe
Ah. That explains the downvotes (I think?). People think I’m some kind of AI bot. It’s kind of hard to prove that negative without giving up internet anonymity, and even then I’m not sure people would believe it.
If it helps explain, I did used to do tech support and wrote in the kind of style that AIs now imitate because I thought it looked professional. I mean, that style came from somewhere, right? Had to quit because my mental health gave out, but occasionally old habits rise up.
Oh, god. Is this the future for us now? We can no longer write properly because it looks too much like AI?
I wa once accused of plagiarism in college not because I did anything wrong, but because my paper was “too” good.
That was before all this AI shit. We are fucked.
oh, well then i’m very sorry for that, i (and the other people who downvoted) genuinely could not tell
It was so tempting to just reply to this with “beep boop”. Or a pumpkin pie recipe.
No offence taken.
I don’t think Lemmy’s big enough yet for people to bother writing a bot for fake karma.
You’re expecting the guy to pose as a janitor to steal art, but instead he just wanted to do the janitor’s job for him.
Malicious plot to get someone promoted.
it makes a lot more sense when you realise the artist probably meant to say “Early Next Morning”
This is not a mistake. The janitor cleans at night, the morning marked the end of his shift.
in that case, it might make more sense to put “midnight” or something on the first panel.
Then it should’ve said later that morning
Or
Later, in the morning
No I still can’t see any plot to the whole.
Then you’re on the right track.
Does the last bit mean “earlier that morning” or “morning, the next day” I wonder.
“Morning, the next day.”
Early that morning (at the end of the janitor’s night shift).
Same