Luke Surl Comics

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1. danineteen

   August 19, 2009 at 12:19 am | # | Reply

   Good one!
2. 
   Davi

   August 19, 2009 at 1:24 am | # | Reply

   Epic Pun.
3. IR

   August 19, 2009 at 1:31 am | # | Reply

   Win. I laughed for ages on this xD
4. Mike

   August 19, 2009 at 2:52 am | # | Reply

   I think something has gone whooshing over my head here. Explanation please?

   • Guib

     August 19, 2009 at 3:03 am | # | Reply

     I didn’t catch it right away either, but then I realized that both “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” are epic poems. The joke is that he failed at identifying an epic.
5. Reagan

   August 19, 2009 at 6:12 am | # | Reply

   Kudos to you and your wit, sir.
6. speearr

   August 19, 2009 at 8:32 am | # | Reply

   Ok I concede, this is one of the only appropriate moments to use that overused phrase!
7. Benthepedant

   August 19, 2009 at 11:50 am | # | Reply

   Recursive Fail in Macro. Telemachus is in both the Iliad and Odyssey.

   • Steve in the Sandbox

     August 20, 2009 at 3:08 pm | # | Reply

     Really? He does not appear in this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_the_Iliad
   • 
     Seandeezy

     August 21, 2009 at 8:21 pm | # | Reply

     Sure, he’s “in” the Iliad, but as a baby, and only for long enough to be placed in front of a plow. He’s featured much more prominently in the Odyssey.
   • P

     February 13, 2010 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

     In either alternative it still plays out logically: in this case, as an Epic Fail for the editor (who really ought to know better if s/he is marking).
     You could say it is a universally logical literal literary epic fail.
   • AlsoAnonymous

     August 30, 2011 at 5:57 am | # | Reply

     Well, you could cite the definition of “featured” here, because although Telemachus was both important and present in the Iliad, he was not really a “featured character”, and really only had a very minor role.
8. Don

   August 19, 2009 at 2:35 pm | # | Reply

   King of the word games! The alt is particularly peculiar and therefore rUl0rs
9. Matt

   August 19, 2009 at 6:14 pm | # | Reply

   Basketcase already did it. http://www.basketcasecomix.com/?p=827

   • vf

     August 22, 2009 at 10:50 am | # | Reply

     Yeah, and I didn’t notice it until he linked to BasketCase in comic 962.

     • 
       Luke

       August 22, 2009 at 10:59 am | #

       I hadn’t read basketcase before (aside from a few StumbleUpons), but after following Matt’s link I became an instant fan.
10. 
    PaulBags

    August 20, 2009 at 9:57 am | # | Reply

    Hey just wanted to point out that I often find your website to be down, I don’t know if it’s a bandwidth thing or what but yeah, sites kinda borked.
11. Gabi

    August 20, 2009 at 2:31 pm | # | Reply

    Awesome. Totally aced my Classics exam today so this was very appropriate
12. 
    Tom

    August 31, 2009 at 4:00 pm | # | Reply

    Well put, my friend, well put.
13. clem

    September 4, 2009 at 6:00 pm | # | Reply

    ooohhh hahahahahaha!! got it
14. Maddie

    September 20, 2009 at 9:00 pm | # | Reply

    <3
15. brett-o-d

    March 18, 2010 at 4:59 pm | # | Reply

    Took me a while to get it. This one was much more difficult but very funny when I figured it out.