could someone explain this to me?
le epic reddit desu
>>9311819
I've never seen this on reddit
>>9311824
go back there
I've read this strip for 60 days straight now, and I still notice subtle intricacies daily that i somehow missed all this time.
Notice the thought bubble. If you count the "lumps" - so to speak - composing it, it makes 16 ovoid shapes.
16... sixteen... sweet sixteen. sixteen is a full, fruitious number: nubile and pliable. but more importantly it is 2^2^2. three repetitions of the same conceptual digit. The same meat and potatoes comic square, elevated and expounded thrice. What this in fact implies is that each panel is not just a continuation, but an elevation; an exponential recursion that produces something far greater than the sum of its parts. This is exactly what we see - and have seen - in the pipe strip, and the poetry at work here is beyond belief.
>>9311813
Here you go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw
>>9311891
This might not be pasta, but it will be.
>>9311911
What the fuck is this? Why?
>>9311931
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MMKB6zYbrc
>>9311813
>>9311891
Sweet sixteen!" - Ed Leedskalnin. The deeply esoteric nature of Davis' Garfield is signaled in the central panel. Leading scholars have shown their lack of understanding by viewing it as of little significance -- a mere afterthought added only after the whole work had been completed. In this sequence Jon's pipe is missing. A black army and an orange army each lay siege to eight of the shapes or "petals" of his thought, blowing smoke like speech or thought itself only devoid of the characteristic lettering -- the exclamation forms a notional "17th" shape, a wall around the city of 16 gates. Not only should this strange description raise a thought balloon, even more significantly it is a microcosm of the entire work which, as a whole, is divided into 16 parts.