56: The Cure
| The Cure |
 Title text: My first try at drawing a real face in years. |
Bold text==Explanation== The "real face" is that of Robert Smith, best know as the singer of the musical group The Cure.
The joke in this comic is very simple: When Robert would sing the above lines of Coldplay's song "Clocks", fans of his music would know the answer: he's part of The Cure.
Transcript
- [A charcoal drawing of Robert Smith's head and face, with a caption underneath.]
- Robert Smith should do a cover of
- Coldplay's Clocks, so when he sings
- "Am I part of the cure or am I part of the disease?"
- we can say, "Ooh, we know this one!"
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Rikthoff (talk) The date of issue of this comic may not be correct. Can anybody verify the issue date?
I saw "The Cure" on a friend's Facebook page under her favorite bands. That prompted me to look up the explanation for this comic to be sure. When I first read it, I thought the "real face" looked a bit...unappealing. Perhaps diseased. Now I see the caption means the opposite of what I thought! Thanks, Explainxkcd! 76.106.251.87 19:36, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
Are there any other realistic drawings on xkcd? --Forrest (talk)13:20, 07 May 2015 (UTC)
- No, I don't think so. I've seen them all and I'm pretty sure that nothing of the style of the early comics came back. Fabian42 (talk) 11:42, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
Every time I hear this song, I think "Dude, what are you on? You're part of Coldplay!"108.162.237.37 15:10, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
