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I like these, I just wish there was a joke beyond "Everett attacks shitty dudes"
It does seem to be his whole gimmick, lol
I'll see if I can find any that break the formula.
There are some where he complains to his wife and ends up the target of her anger.
I wouldn't expect there to be any since him attacking shitty people is a match for the comic's title.
I am absolutely loving these for showing someone in the early 1900s was making art about how absolutely shitty people were.
On the downside it is clear that society has learned nothing.
Not just art. They were making memes. Every strip has the same structure: Everett makes a statement of common decency, some random dude disagrees, then Everett physically assault the random dude. This is literally a meme template, from the early 1900s.
Question is: will the meme evolve in a similar fashion that we see modern memes evolve? Or does the fact that it has a single author prevent this natural evolution?
There's also a pun, since conflagration can also mean conflict.
Sometimes the pun's more obvious
Hm, is that a pun? The movie title happens to also be describing what's happening in the frame, I think that's another literary device.
Situational Irony?
(I'm always scared to mention irony online)