But historical recognisability is important to a visual medium. I didn’t get the joke until I came to the comments and saw this discussion. And I don’t imagine there were comment sections back when this was published. If people can’t tell what the punchline of a joke is supposed to be, it’s a bad delivery.
Attila the Hun joke would work better if they didn’t look like crusaders in Jerusalem.
From what I’ve seen, Larson only ever drew 3 different time periods:
Dinosaur/stone age too, don’t forget the thagomizer
Right! Anything from the bronze age to cowboy times, he draws medieval. Anything before bronze age is cavemen
There were lots of 50s housewife and dads too.
I’m just guessing, but it almost seems like he was going for a geographically and ethnically non-descript generic soldiers and castle look.
Should have used grass and trees for the background so it doesn’t look like a desert.
Should have drawn Roman soldiers, not mail armor from 500 years later.
I could be wrong, but I don’t think historical accuracy was ever a goal of these comics.
But historical recognisability is important to a visual medium. I didn’t get the joke until I came to the comments and saw this discussion. And I don’t imagine there were comment sections back when this was published. If people can’t tell what the punchline of a joke is supposed to be, it’s a bad delivery.
I’m sure one of the most celebrated newspaper comics of all time is really torn up you don’t like his one 35 year old comic.
Sure, but unfiltered reposts like this shows they weren’t all gems.
Are you whining that you don’t like the comic?
Are you saying you got the joke at first glance?