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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Comic 966: X Knows - Controlled Demolition!

Yeah, yeah, worst backronym ever. Too bad.


Title: Jet Fuel; alt-text: The 'controlled demoliton [sic]' theory was concocted by the government to distract us. '9/11 was an inside job' was an inside job!

Well, this being a "My Hobby" comic, it means that Randall avoids his usual pitfalls of long, convoluted setups and post-punchline dialogue. This being xkcd, it still sucks.

This isn't much of a comic, which means that this won't be much of a review, either. 9/11 jokes are just old now (it happened TEN YEARS AGO), and this one isn't especially funny. It's an okay (if utterly pointless) idea, but that's the best I can say about it.

Sorry I don't have anything else in this review, but I've been starting at the blog editor off an on since I got into work today, and this is the best you're going to get. Maybe next time.

3 comments:

  1. With so little material to work with I took the easy way out when making this edit: http://xkcdprime.blogspot.com/2011/10/xkcd-966-jet-fuel-introducing-vengence.html

    seriously my confirmation text is "insink"

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  2. This strip is basically a (much wordier) alternative to yelling "it was filmed in a sound stage on Mars" to anyone who says the moonlandings were faked.

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  3. The problem with this comic is that it stereotypes conspiracy theorists into people who believe all conspiracy theories. That said, it was still a good joke.

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