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[HEED THESE HOUNDS #14 ~ Life Imitates Ants]

Very witty and creative dialogue, I also find the characters adorable too. I just wish that I got a laugh out of it.

Jokes are more than reciting what everyone knows it’s an art form with rules, tools, and structure.

The basic structure of a joke is the setup and the punchline.
A set up is when you imply a situation or tell a brief story to give an audience familiarity.

Then there’s the punchline subvert their expectations and go somewhere they didn’t expect that’s related but not obvious.
This creates surprise, the basis of all laughter.

One tip I learned is that if I’m not confident a joke lands I set the comic down until I forget it. Then come back to see if I laugh if I don’t I just scrap the joke and make a new one instead of editing it until it’s funny that never works.

Boof-Hound responds:

Thanks for the review/criticism! I'm glad you liked the dialogue and characters, they're both probably my favourite parts of creating my comics. I definitely understand where you're coming from in regards to humour/jokes. I myself have never found my comics to be laughter-inducing. I guess my approach at humour is more just based on silliness and absurdity, rather than well-crafted jokes/punchlines. My comics are just goofy, kooky little nonsense stories, that might make you think 'well, that's weird and silly'. Can this be classed as comedy; are the comics actually funny? Maybe, maybe not. My comics may not warrant laughter, but I hope they can at least be found amusing.

[Robot Battle]

This looks amazing! Good character design, awesome color pallet, and the backgrounds is spectacular!

Sillurgy responds:

Thanks, i work hard on it ^^