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Penny Arcade is where this originally came from. One of my favorites would have to be this one about Linux or maybe this one.

Sure, the bench is nice, but most people who make strips need to get a better sense of humor. the best ones are posted on PA's main site.

It isn't that I hate UF, it just isn't funny. And not for the reasons in this lame article.

If your comic hinges upon the second panel being just a guy sitting there (a pause for comedic timing) you know your comic is in trouble.

Illiad just doesn't know even the basic formula for a comic. Dilbert knows it... the first two panels are for the set up, but those are funny too. The third panel gives you the punch line *and* an added commentary, giving you three jokes.

UF just gives you one joke, at most. One UF strip was just a robotic arm moving up saying "Oh, yeah." That was it, just that. The whole strip. So what if it mentions Linux, it just ain't funny.

One UF was for two panels a guy clicking a mouse. "What are you doing?" "Trying to get a first post on slashdot." --- That's funny? It's a joke, but Illiad just doesn't know how to show it. Instead, I'd put that joke in the first two panels and in the third panel put in the *real* joke: "But we lost our connection a couple days ago, that's just a cached copy." "I thought news was rather slow."

Now *that's* funny. Really, all UF needs is to be cleaned up like that. Take what buds of jokes you can and turn them into real kickers. That, and get a real artist, like http://www.penny-arcade.com/. Read a couple of those, and you'll wonder what a no talent hack like Illiad is doing in the first place. PA is funny also because they rail on Illiad better than I ever could.

PS. For dramatic timing you'd use "..." in the strip, not waste a whole panel.

Have you ever dated that John Romero chick? I hear she's pretty hot.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/idea.shtml