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I think the most funny part of this comic is the traveling magnet salesman. Are horseshoe magnets in high enough demand that they really need a traveling salesman?
honestly, i think that this had promise, but the magnet salesman both makes and ruins it.
magnet salesman is at once funny because of the complete absurdity and retarded because it is like you jumped on any old weird idea to ruin the floppy. it extends almost to, dare i say, jackassery.
i feel like maybe it would have worked better with more background for the magnet salesman. i know that i turned to magnet salesmanship after a fire destroyed my family.. then i went everywhere trying to spread the joy of magnets to other people whose lives were lost in the flames.
I think this really could have ended with the fourth panel. You get more of a sense of inevitable information loss, rather then shoving it in your face with “electro-magnetic squigglies,” and a re-affirmation of his inevitable disappointment.
I agree that the last two panels were un-neccesary. But the last line made me twinge with empathy, and at the same time made my cruel side grin. The last two panels didn’t ruin the comic, and it should have been rated higher.
(60 votes, average: 3.62 out of 5)
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September 16th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
I don’t know what part’s funnier… His pictures being wiped, or the 5 1/4 inch floppy drive that they were stored on.
… Actually, the floppy is funnier. Obsolete technology makes me laugh.
January 17th, 2008 at 10:19 am
I think the most funny part of this comic is the traveling magnet salesman. Are horseshoe magnets in high enough demand that they really need a traveling salesman?
March 30th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
honestly, i think that this had promise, but the magnet salesman both makes and ruins it.
magnet salesman is at once funny because of the complete absurdity and retarded because it is like you jumped on any old weird idea to ruin the floppy. it extends almost to, dare i say, jackassery.
i feel like maybe it would have worked better with more background for the magnet salesman. i know that i turned to magnet salesmanship after a fire destroyed my family.. then i went everywhere trying to spread the joy of magnets to other people whose lives were lost in the flames.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:42 pm
This is KIND of funny, but way, WAY too forced to really work. I agree with jrad.
This’d be a really funny joke if you could think of a natural way to work the magnetization in.
April 5th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I think this really could have ended with the fourth panel. You get more of a sense of inevitable information loss, rather then shoving it in your face with “electro-magnetic squigglies,” and a re-affirmation of his inevitable disappointment.
April 19th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Yeah, maybe a nuke goes off in the distant background, and the EMP wipes the disk.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:09 am
It’s so forced it’s beyond not working and right back into genius.
July 21st, 2008 at 8:17 am
Suffering is not inherently funny.
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I laughed at the fourth panel, but not the end. Most people already know what magnets do to floppies, so the bottom line was not needed.
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:54 am
I agree that the last two panels were un-neccesary. But the last line made me twinge with empathy, and at the same time made my cruel side grin. The last two panels didn’t ruin the comic, and it should have been rated higher.