Here we see Inspector Gadget, the main character from the children’s animated series of the same name that ran from the 80s through the 90s. One of the primary plot devices in the show was the Inspector calling out “Go-Go Gadget …” and the name of one of his many hidden gadgets to deploy (generally to ill effect).
In the Author’s version of the kid’s show, Inspector Gadget deploys an entirely different kind of object: two women engaging in sexual intercourse. Due to the caution and secrecy by which he summons these lesbians, it is clear that it was done for reasons of sexual pleasure. We can imagine a fifth panel in which Inspector Gadget is hunched over the two women, breathing deeply and convulsing as he masturbates through his open trench coat.
What the Author is claiming here is that time-travel is actually invented very often, but that the inventor inevitably “realizes it was a bad idea” and goes back in time to kill his pre-time-machine-inventing self.
With the comic strip being woefully void of graphs as of late, the Author has taken a couple of minutes out of his day to hand craft some for our enjoyment.
This series of graphs takes well-known or common statements that include a numeric value and replace the number with a range of values, which are plotted by the frequency with which they are used on the internet. Some of the graphs tackle teenage emotional issues such as not having a boyfriend/girlfriend, while others simply plot the age of teens and pre-teens across the web. Along with those are some graphs showing the claimed breast and penis sizes of individuals. The rest are either humorous references to song lyrics, Star Trek, or are just filler.
Much like this comic strip, the popular Porn for Women series of humorous books portray men mimicking the actions and behavior of women in order to impress them. However, the books show men mimicking the stereotypical daily-tasks of women such as cooking and cleaning, rather than the stereotypical emotional neediness seen in this web comic.
In a bold move, the Author stands up for women and publicly criticizes the competition in today’s comic. He does so by further infiltrating the female psyche and giving their (negative) opinion about these books for them. In his mind, women would rather see people fucking than cleaning.
Women across the world are now thanking the Author for doing their work for them.
Note: Hey, that’s a pretty good book idea - men like the Author doing women’s work for them. It could be called “Porn for Women.”
Some websites, generally pornographic in nature, display ads that purport to know of females “in your area” that wish to have sex on the viewer of the ad. Recently, these ads have begin matching the user’s IP address with a physical location (usually a city) through a process called Geo targeting. With this information the advertisers can more easily trick people into clicking their ads, since by specifying the user’s actual city they can appear more targeted and legitimate.
While viewing a pornographic website, the Author noticed one of these deceptive ads and thought aloud, “wouldn’t it be funny if I were in some wacky location that couldn’t possibly have local girls, so that this ad I am looking at would display that wacky location? That would be funny.” After a bit of research, he decided to use space as the fictitious setting for his new comic strip.
As you can see, the two astronauts have humorous ads that claim there are girls in “low earth orbit,” which is funny because even if there were, it would be quite difficult to “meet” them.
Note: the pornographic females in the last panel of this strip have significantly more detailed hair than the scientist female (or nearly any other character in previous strips). This is due to the fact that the Author spent much more time drawing them, as he enjoys drawing women as sexual symbols more than as intellectual characters.
In this installment of the popular web comic, the Author returns to the traditional format by including something that is easily recognizable as a joke. As is standard practice, we are treated to a combination of a geek culture character (Sauron, of Lord of the Rings), in a humorously improbable real-life situation (lamenting his lot in life while drinking in a bar), and a pop-culture reference (the song “All the Single Ladies” by Beyonce Knowles).
Having enumerated the advantages enjoyed by humans (attractive), elves (attractive), and dwarves (attractive when you are drunk), and expressing his dissatisfaction at being stuck with orcs (hideous), Sauron is struck with the solution to his dilemma when Ms. Knowles reaches the chorus of her hit song: he will ‘put a ring on it’. The juxtaposition of the song’s intended meaning of an engagement ring with the intended meaning for Sauron of rings of power to subjugate the races of Middle Earth delivers our well-earned punchline.
Thus, the Author humorously reveals the image he holds of himself as a lonely, mask wearing embodiment of evil plotting the enslavement of the beautiful creatures of the world who he views as his betters: humans, elves, and dwarves in Lord of the Rings - women in reality.
Unlike many of the Author’s works which rely upon homographic puns, today’s work relies on a visual pun. Both the seismograph (used for measuring earthquakes) and a polygraph (used for measuring a variety of body reactions) are popularly depicted using the same classical “needles dragging on paper” mechanism to form a line chart.¹
The author uses this visual similarity—backed by his mainstay, the chart—to convey the juxtaposition of a polygraph as a way to detect earthquakes. A male in a position of power dominates another male connected to an outrageously large and curiously upright polygraph in an attempt to discern if “there is an earthquake happening?!”
A clever Reader might spend more time considering this comic and ask, “Why would the man sitting be a better authority than the man standing on this subject? Presumably both would feel an earthquake?” Your Curator advises you against considering this question any more deeply; there is simply no redeeming value—humorous or otherwise—to that line of questioning.
¹ Television and movies depict these devices as mechanically based, but modern systems are unsurprisingly wholly computerized.
A man attempts to prove (by hand) the Collatz Conjecture which states that you can pick any whole number and repeatedly half it if it is even, or multiply it by three and add one if it is odd and you will eventually get the number one.
Since this requires a lot of work, the man is never available to spend time with his friends. For this reason his friends eventually stop attempting to hang out with him since he will almost assuredly be working on the Collatz Conjecture and thus will not be able to join them in their activities.
In a recreation of the Burning Bush scene from the Book of Exodus, we see Moses (complete with removed sandals) getting talked to by God. Then God says that his counterpart is “R2-D2.” This happened because in the film Return of the Jedi (part of the Star Wars franchise) the robot known as C3PO is worshiped as a god by the Ewoks and his partner was the robot R2-D2.
A man and a woman attempt to engage in sexual foreplay aided by a set of novelty “sex dice.” These dice, which generally combine a sexual act with a body part, are meant to be rolled and taken as directions for an action to perform on the partner’s body. Some examples of possible output from a rolled pair sex dice: “tickle tits”, “massage mouth”, “spank vagina” and “sex butt.”
However, the horny stick-figure couple from today’s comic strip have a problem: upon rolling the dice only one of them is a sex die - the other is a normal, numbered die. This leads to the humorously non sexual roll, “five breasts.” It is then revealed that the other sex die has been swapped into a children’s fantasy role-playing game, which causes confusion by including sexual concepts into an activity generally void of any.
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