From Dan Sachs:
“Best said”?
Indeed. Surely “less said” was intended. Back in the day, there were these people called “editors”, who might have caught this and had it fixed (though perhaps not, since they would have to go back to the cartoonist, unlike local edits).
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See two days ago. Same comic but it was correctly stated as “less said.”
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The white rabbit only has one eye, and they both have a random number of fingers in each panel. The additional error Dan points out clearly confirms it’s AI generated.
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Stan, I dunno! Some of these “AI telltales” may not apply as well in a comics context, since the artists so often have these similar stylistic peculiarities.
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Yes, something of a mystery how the version a couple days ago had a silent correction!
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I still think the Waldo/Wally joke is tremendously weak. “Peeping Tom”? Because the reader is supposed to find Waldo? That’s a pretty muddled punchline regardless, but also… Waldo’s not hiding, he just likes to travel to crowded places. The book is generally framed as Waldo asking the reader to find him (and, usually, to help him find various lost items and/or friends).
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Consul: Funny, when I saw it in the feed two days ago I’d forgotten that I’d posted it separately, and didn’t notice the text change since that wasn’t the point of that post!
Re whether it’s AI-generated: both versions have the same art, so I’m not sure what that would prove?
I’m guessing that someone told the author and he got the syndicator to post a fixed version. Have we ever seen that before, though?
If nothing else, it reveals the tight and careful coordination in our postings between me and zbicyclist! /s
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The white rabbit, Weenus, has always had one eye. The other one here is “the unobtainable Trixie—bohemian, reader of existential philosophy, master of the diatonic button accordion.”
I don’t know Jonathan Lemon personally, but I doubt that he uses AI for this.
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@Mitch4, @phsiii and @Boise Ed – I was making a joke about AI generation. Sadly, it seems to have fallen as flat as the joke in the comic itself. Ho-hum.
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It’s actually very easy to change text in most comics, because they’re computer-lettered.
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Carl Fink: I think some cartoons are still hand-lettered, no? This one is clearly computer-done since the letters are identical. Still, wouldn’t they need to go back to the cartoonist, who will have the specific font (and the original artwork)? In this case, since “BEST” is at the end of the line, it would be easy to just white it out and overlay the new letters, but in general that might not be so easy, especially if the replacement text is longer/shorter.
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