Comments on: Death Cab

By: M2Infinity

M2Infinity — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:48:26 +0000

The joke is the title (play on ‘Death and Taxes’, natch). The rest just naturally follows. Particularly the drinking.

By: Logic

Logic — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:45:34 +0000

The joke is that the taxi driver looks like Burt Reynolds.

I believe that is the gist of it.

By: anthony

anthony — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:09:45 +0000

the joke, to me, is in the transition between the first two panels (the taxi driver sets it up as though death is an average guy in a trivial conversation, but then throws down some truth disguised as “death’s problem” rather than his own; coping with inevitable demise.) the third panel seems supplementary.

By: LizardKing

LizardKing — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:30:27 +0000

Anon, Although you are partly correct imo, that view also defeats the joke to some extent. He’s drinking because he’s a working class person, but the joke is funny because that’s such a contrast with the highly intellectual and philosophical statement he just made in panel 2.

By: LizardKing

LizardKing — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:27:50 +0000

I think this is my favorite strip so far. This, or the dolphin screaming.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:28:12 +0000

No, sealy mattresses, he isn’t.

He’s going drinking because he’s a stereotypical working class person.

By: sealy mattresses

sealy mattresses — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:21:11 +0000

hah its funny but if u wanna “analyze it” hes going drinking at the end cause of what he said just before about his growing fear and he cant deal with it so drink the probs away!

By: WOW...

WOW... — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:02:40 +0000

…this is DEEP.

By: dabble911

dabble911 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:41:23 +0000

I imagine the hallucinatory symptons got very real when the meter stopped

By: aidan

aidan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:58:54 +0000

yeah same hir i dont get this! 🙂