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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Someone is going to have to explain it.

I can't for the life of me figure it out :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

it makes a lot more sense when you realise the artist probably meant to say "Early Next Morning"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

No I still can't see any plot to the whole.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is not a mistake. The janitor cleans at night, the morning marked the end of his shift.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Then it should've said later that morning

Or

Later, in the morning

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Who says there's anything to figure out? The joke, such as it is, could be on the reader, not in the comic itself. Subversion of expectations is often funny.

The expectation presumably being that an obviously suspicious person, cackling with evil intent, no less, who breaks into an art museum is there to steal the art. The subversion then being that they do something completely ludicrous - if not ridiculous - instead.

Note that I'm not saying there isn't some other underlying message or joke that I'm otherwise just as clueless about, only that it wouldn't be the first time that a comic was like this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does the last bit mean "earlier that morning" or "morning, the next day" I wonder.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

"Morning, the next day."