c/comicstrips · by NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org · 1y

Too late.

601 points · 29 comments · view on lemmy.world

29 Comments

kn33@lemmy.world · 146 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Too many titles spoil the punch line, though. I can't risk it without reading the comic first.

Too late.

But how many times I've scrolled down to a happy smiling face, I start to smile too, them BAM, title starts: Teen killed when..."

BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 1y

Fuck... I get shit at work for not reading subjects in emails too.

Had one person put the whole email in the subject to fuck with me. It worked.

Zorque@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 1y

Jokes on you, I read the title, forget that I read the title, read the post, then go back and read the title again 😎

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y (9 replies)

I don't get it... How is "too late" the punchline?

Limonene@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I don't get it either, and what order are you supposed to read it? Does the title come first, or at the end?

dukk@programming.dev · 42 pts · 1y (3 replies)

read the comic, realize you didn’t read the title, read the title. too late.

logicbomb@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't get it until you explained it. Ironically, the people who read titles will have a harder time understanding the comic, because we've read it out-of-order.

toynbee@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

I read the title, discarded it from memory because I had no context or meaning for it, read the comic, went back to remind myself what the title is. Now I just feel numb.

Krauerking@lemy.lol · 7 pts · 1y

Oh just brag about stealing my wife, why don't you!

ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It’s telling the reader they are too late reading the title after being called out for not reading it.

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 5 pts · 1y

As someone that reads titles and is therefore the superior romantic match I am immune (to thinking it was funny)

Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Also on my lemmy the title of a post is below the image. It would be very strange for someone not to read the image first. This joke is bad.

KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

It depends on what client you are using. It’s above the post on Voyager.

mlg@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y