English Assignment

This comic strip, created by Daniel and Robert, is a reference to the extinction of dinosaurs and the Biblical character Noah. This comic strip is about Noah’s ark and how Noah loaded all the animals onto his ship. Our comic strip suggests that Noah did not load the dinosaurs onto the ark because the dinosaurs did not add him on Facebook. It was very hard to think of something funny that wasn’t slap stick. Many times we thought of funny jokes, but they all involved inappropriate humour or somebody getting hurt/insulted. We decided that our project needs to be smart with lots of ideas that can make people think of these events and giggle a little. We chose to do this comic strip because it relates to historical, religious and current events in a very clever fashion. It was very hard to decide on the topic and how we were going to produce something that is in the category of Comedy of Ideas. Our comic is a comedy of ideas. In order to understand the joke you need to be familiar with endeavors of Noah and fact that dinosaurs are extinct. This comic strip makes you think, thinking is usually associated with ideas…therefore our comic strip s a comedy of ideas. The main idea we are trying to instill into the reader is that certain historical and biblical events do not match up. We are mocking the fact that Noah was supposed to save all the animals but he did not save the poor dinosaurs simply because they did not have him on Facebook. The comic is very ironic because the whole race of Dinosaurs all extinct simply because of a Facebook request. Perhaps this is a metaphor for what happens if you do not have Facebook today: you are not able to express your ideas easily or communicate with others effortlessly…if you do not have you will be left behind and your ideas will be outdated.