I was thinking, funny as it is, it might have worked better as a one-panel vignette (I don’t know the cartoonist’s usual format, if they always follow this 4-panel square layout) with just panel #4, word balloon included, and the text from panel #1 as a caption.

Yeah, yeah, everyone’s a critic. In any case, it’s pretty funny…but not as funny as your face! 🤡

Bushmiller was a genius of gag.

And sometimes a video game is just a video game.

So…where’s the laughs? 🤷 Where’s the ironic, comedic observation usually present in comic strips? 🤔 Am I being obtuse?