18.33: Deep Dive: The Schlock Mercenary Finale
Writing Excuses
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The Importance of Context in Humour
When I am reading it as a, as a full page as a graphic novel, the size of the jokes vary. When you're writing something where you need to land a punchline, you've only got the context for those two or three previous panels. But when you're doing it long form, a lot of the, you're able to have a much bigger payoff. Maybe you didn't need the whole joke, but you needed some of it. If you went back and read more then obviously there would be more.
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