Letters to the Editor
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um... is this a joke?
Is this an actual graphic serial adventure, or an early April Fool's joke?
What artist could introduce his lovely new heroine by literally cutting & pasting her entire head from frame 1 to frame 3?
Is the flat, unfunny, cramped font supposed to somehow make fun of comic artists that take the time to hand-letter? And is the tick-mark "dumb-quote" in the title part of the gag?
I can count several bits of overt humor on the page... but the text is dominated by what seem like inside jokes.
The final panel was the creators' last chance to let us in on the intent of this comic (is it making fun of anything? Does it has a quirky heart beneath the blathering text? Does it conceal a deep snarky self-hatred of liberals? A wink to a particular sub-culture?)... but instead we get an empty non-sequitur. And not only that, but the fact that we are told "To be continued..." implies that this is not literally a page from a multi-page story like a comic book (which assumes you are going to turn the page and doesn't need to tell you), but that this page is intended to stand on its own, at least for a while. In that case the loose pacing and lack of credible setup of a premise mark this page as either an attempt to make fun of me the audience, or perhaps a half-assed amateurish creative failure.
There are many legitimate comic artists out here trying to do good work. Yucky choice Salon.