Buckley box
in webcomics, the addition of an unwanted, superfluous panel over explaining a joke; usually kills anything remotely resembling humor.
made famous by tim buckley of cad fame.
this webcomic could be funny without the buckley box at the end of every strip.
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a dialogue bubble in a comic strip that serves less as a medium for conversation or character development and more for the purposes of explaining to the reader what they are to find amusing. it is similar to the idea of “telegraphing” a joke; however, instead of simply making it obvious that the joke is imminent, a buckleybox -n-lyzes the joke itself in order to inform the reader from where the humor is intended to be derived.
it is often -ssociated with a lack of writing apt-tude, in that the writer is unable to artfully craft humor and must, instead, resort to prolonging the punchline to the extent that it is lost in text. in every situation of a buckleybox, it is possible to remove the box entirely while simultaneously improving the quality of the humor.
three comic panels that set up an obvious sight gag. buckleybox in the final panel: “let’s see them f-ck with me now that i’ve got a gun with a train on it!”
a chat bubble in a comic. named after tim buckley, writer of the ctrl-alt-del webcomic because he tends to use way too many of them and promptly kills the joke.
ctrl-alt-del uses way too many buckleyboxes. penny arcade tends to be significantly funnier and contains significantly less buckleyboxes.
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