Re: Bizarro (3/29)


In the previous article, Blinky the Wonder Wombat
<wkharrisjr_info@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wouldn't the joke have been funnier, and Piraro made his point
better, if the man pulled out a fried chicken leg out of the bucket
and said "Hey, there's a dead bird in here!"?

I think it would have been even funnier to have him staring into the
bucket complaining about the dead bird, without our being able to see
just what he was talking about.

Maybe one of the problems with having exceptional drawing talent like
Piraro's is that you are often tempted to over-draw the joke.
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