this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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Out of Context Comics
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Comic panels taken out of comics so we can make fun of them!! We love the golden age stuff!
Rules:
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Comics must come from actual comic books. No AI or Photoshops.
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Single panels are preferred.
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Comics should be unintentionally funny. Spider-man cracking wise is not what this is about.
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Don't be a dick.
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I can't believe I've had to add this... NO RACISM.
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I think the name of the community is actually a good indicator here. It's for comics that are funny because of removing them from their original context. The most common humor is "teehee" humor coming from interpreting innocent panels in a dirty context, like this:
Other humor comes from silly situations that are absurd without context like this:
Panels that are funny in the original material can be good for this community, if removing the context provides different humor. This is supposed to be funny in the original because a bear shouldn't accept being spanked by a man, but removing the context allows it to be interpreted as sexual spanking, which is probably not what the original comic intended (there's undoubtedly a lot of writers/artists sneakily inserting their fetishes into their work, but it's more about how the general audience would've interpreted it).
the smurfing one seems intentionally funny, which is my point, a lot of these seem intentional and ppl are just assuming the writers were slow or people didnt make crass jokes back then?
It's generally hard to guess at authorial intent, but the smurfs one isn't any more dirty than the rest of the smurf language, in context. Here's the full page:
Here's another few panels from that issue that shows how often verbs are replaced with "smurf":
If you replace that many verbs with "smurf", eventually you're going to end up with something that sounds dirty. In context, it reads as very normal speech though. Maybe the author knew that and secretly did it intentionally, but the general audience wouldn't have interpreted it that way.