Thursday, September 10, 2009

Abandon All Hope (comic)


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Photo credit (first and third panels) thorinside (second panel): Scrunchface, (bottom left)Hamed Masoumi (bottom right) footloosity and Wikipedia. This comic may be distributed under Creative Commons.

Update: I cleaned up the spacing and changed the color on the top right panel.
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3 comments:

  1. Josh4:00 AM

    Why am I thinking about room 101 in the MiniLove from 1984? Either way, DoublePlus UnGood...

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  2. dave6:31 AM

    Sometimes the ability to make 2 + 2 = 5 is valuable!

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  3. Josh4:00 PM

    Especially when you have extremely large values of 2.

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