Talk:1761: Blame

It seems like he's talking about all of the bad things that have happened in 2016 so far making fun of Facebook posts that blame everyone for the things that are happening 173.245.52.119 05:21, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

In particular the recent election108.162.215.224 08:16, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Is this a reference to the "echo chamber" issue raised in recent US election? I.e. blaming my friends on facebook for only sharing stories that reinforce my biases and thus my failure to be fully informed about why people who disagree with me do disagree and only blaming them for being dumb isn't a failing on *my* part, but on my friends' parts for only sharing echo-chamber-y material. 108.162.237.87 10:03, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

I definitely think it's worth mentioning that this comic is, while written to be timeless, clearly a reaction to the election. (Randall has endorsed both Obama in 2008 and Clinton this year, and judging by #500, cares more than a little, so it's hard to conceive that this *wouldn't* be about the election.)

There are two types of Facebook activity that may be the target of this satire: 1) engaging in angry arguments with Facebook friends with *differing* political opinions, and 2) making numerous angry posts and comments against the other side, despite the fact that they’ll mainly be seen by *like-minded* people in your social media echo chamber. I expect that this comic is aimed at both: 1) the futility of internet arguments has been a topic before, while 2) the title text specifying “scared friends” clearly indicates like-minded people. 162.158.89.54 10:22, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

By focusing on blame he has cleverly shifted thinking to Q:"are your friends on Facebook to blame?" A:"probably not as they are almost all likely to have similar views to you" Q:"So why vent anger on Facebook to people who aren't to blame and you don't want to change?" A:"errrrrr...." 141.101.98.224 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Summonings

This will be a reference to the Bartimaeus trilogy, particularly the first book. I hope I don't have to do a transcript. Black Hat is drawing a pentacle in the first panel.In the second panel, he draws another pentacle with the first still in view behind him.But mind you! The pentacles are drawn on the ground, and setting does not matter as long as he is alone and this is not done on grass. Anyway, in the third panel he puts candles on each of the five points of the star of the first pentacle.In the fourth panel, he does the same thing to the second pentacle. In the fifth panel Black Hat stands in the first pentacle and says the words appear, remain, listen, submit, return. But with each word he says,there is another panel. On the eleventh panel something starts to materialize. From there, my ideas are horrible and uncreative, but I hope you can work from that. I'm a big fan so I hope I see this comic soon.