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The Doctor Says: Fun is Officially Over
grammar fascist writes "After just less than 13 years, the first comic on the World Wide Web, Doctor Fun, has come to an end. Thanks for all the laughs, Dave. From Dave Farley's page at ibiblio: 'Doctor Fun is over. As promised, I somehow managed to finish 520 weeks or ten full years, even if it took a bit longer than ten years to get there. All of the old cartoons will stay right here as long as ibiblio wants to keep hosting them.'"
Perhaps it is some huge injoke, and you need to read the 5200 or so previous jokes to get it. If you did, you would explode (literally) in laughter - but looking around the office, I haven't seen anyone explode yet.
Strange... I never heard of this comic till just now.
Blimey, it just shows to go ya... I'd never come across this before... only in it's death throes does it achieve infamy in this household. It was the same with Elvis. I'd like to think I'm not some hapless net neophyte but really, there is so much going on that even given a decade of exposure this thing had never (consciously) crossed my path until now. I liked the cartoons, never seen them before... rest assured though that my period of mourning will be thankfully brief. Next!
I'd say that I have a pretty healthy sense of humor, but I honestly didn't find any of the linked comics or random ones I looked at remotely funny. I can't be alone here.
Sniff sniff
That's not the only one that resembles slashdot. I think that there might be a hidden slashdot reference between this comic and this one. Though this story isn't a dupe, that comic is. Could be the most subtle humor I've seen in a while.
warning: This post is likely to contain gobs of dripping sarcasm. Consume at your own risk.
Why not just read through the archives at a pace of one comic per day? Ten years should give you enough time to get used to the idea that it's going to end.