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Comic panels taken out of comics so we can make fun of them!! We love the golden age stuff!
Rules:
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Comics must come from actual comic books. No AI or Photoshops.
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Single panels are preferred.
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Comics should be unintentionally funny. Spider-man cracking wise is not what this is about.
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Don't be a dick.
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I can't believe I've had to add this... NO RACISM.
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I'm pretty sure that having only one comma in that sentence is grammatically incorrect, but I don't feel confident enough to be pedantic about it.
You're correct; "my friends" should be bookended by commas.
See, this is why I hedged my bets. That wasn't the comma that threw me off. I didn't even see that one on first read-through. I was focused on the "the substance that, injected intravenously, turns women into cats!"
Yup! And "injected intravenously" could actually be done one of two ways: with commas (incorrectly done here) or with en- or em-dashes. For example, "the substance that – injected intravenously – turns women into cats!" (en-dashes) or "the substance that—injected intravenously—turns women into cats!" (em-dashes) are both valid. I often tend to prefer en-dashes because I think they're easier to read than em-dashes and put more emphasis than commas on the idea that this is a bit of an aside. I think commas are just a bit too overloaded and that en-dashes add more flexibility to grammar.
You are the first person I have ever seen who feels the same way that I do on this subject!
There are actually two commas in there, and adding just one is still one too short. The original is:
"This, my friends is the substance that, injected intravenously turns women into cats!"
The sentence should be:
"This, my friends, is the substance that, injected intravenously, turns women into cats!"