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by comex 1675 days ago
I've seen galaxy brain comics where the last row is the punchline. The comic might start out moving in a certain direction in a logical way, which may or may not be humorous by itself, but then the last row has a twist, an unexpected interpretation of the direction.

Some bad examples I found on Google:

https://i.redd.it/j0wwzqe2287z.jpg

https://in.pinterest.com/pin/366128644701746892/

The x86 comic may or may not count, depending on whether you expect the reader to know that using those sorts of legacy instructions is not actually an improvement…

1 comments

Sure, my point is that the twist doesn't need to be at a particular point, nor does there even need to be a twist. It's just a progression of related images–I think the progression in the ones you're showing is similar to the "evolution of a programmer" joke where a junior engineer starts off with something simple, progressively makes it cleverer and more complicated as they learn more, and eventually return back to the simple solution.