I’ve got a comics pet peeve that’s been driving me crazy lately, and this seems like a good place to vent my spleen.

We keep giving our readers the finger.

It’s especially rampant in humor strips. We get to the last panel, the punchline is delivered, and I look under the word balloon, and there’s the speaker, pointing his index finger in the air.

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