Webcomic: Use silly made-up palindromes in your messages for Palindrome Week

            When you see everyone using clever #palindromes for #PalindromeWeek, impress them with your stupid palindromes.

// My thoughts on the humor in this comic //
This is a rather silly webcomic about palindromes. Not as clever as I’d like my webcomics to be. But the script resulted in a work Slack conversation where I was being goofy. Perhaps the context of a work Slack chat makes this a bit more funny. But I figured why not toss this into a webcomic?

There’s something about how palindromes seem to carefully composed. They are perfect constructions of balance. Writers of palindrome sentences surely must take lots of sweat and tears to produce a single sentence—tossing out all the other sentences that don’t have perfect balance.

And then this webcomic has palindromes created by flipping the word backwards, and sticking it in front of the original word. Completely lazy. Completely the opposite of how a palindrome would be painstakingly constructed. So I find some humor in that.

// Ending reaction phrase //
At the end, Etym says “Too hot to hoot!”—which is a palindrome. Originally, I had “cleverrrrrr”—which doesn’t really make any sense, other than a silly commentary.

I thought perhaps a palindrome reaction might be humorous to mark Etym’s reaction. A google search for palindromes list resulted in this handy page by Ralph Griswold on arizona.edu.

“Too hot to hoot” is kinda funny. Weird phrase. But a fun interjection. Other sentences I considered:
• Sit on a potato pan, Otis.
• Did Hannah say as Hannah did?
• Mad? Am I, madam?
• Niagara, O roar again!
• I moan, Naomi.
• Live not on evil.
I kinda stayed away from the sentences that have a name. I have yet to name the Worm, and I don’t really want to start naming him something random like Otis.

   

Taken on: September 11, 2019

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