By Samantha Mason

Recently The Beat, household name for comic blogging (well in the Foot2Mouth household, at any rate), posted a brief story about the top 15 unintentionally funny comic panels from YestButNoButYes.

Little commentary from editor Heidi MacDonald left us curious about the amusing panels and the illustration pane detailing Wonder Woman and her dire eyelash crisis spurred us forward to pursue more chuckles at YesButNoButYes.

But be warned: what we found was almost entirely sex jokes, gay jokes, and woman bashing. Okay, so the crisis of femininity with Wonder Woman is smile worthy. Wonder Woman is badass and the detailing of her powerful facial muscles coupled with her preference to escape blind over losing her eyelashes is pretty absurd. Heck, she blinded herself using snake venom in Greg Rucka’s run on the hero-goddess. But the more you read the panels at YesButNo, the more you realize that this is idea of women is actually the way society functioned when the comics were written.

It’s funny at first to think that foolish people used to have the ‘women should be seen and not heard’ mentality back in the day, but all too quickly it becomes sad, and slightly insulting. Why is the way women used to be treated and depicted funny? With all the talk in the comic book industry today of drawing in female readers, these panels should demonstrate just why they have been so hesitant for so long. After a while, is this really funny any more?

Beyond the whole woman issue, most of the rest of the panels unintentionally make not-to-thinly veiled illusions to homosexuality or masturbation. Snore. Like making Batman and Robin gay jokes are a new invention.

However, YesButNo seems to be pulling most of its material (if not the entirety of it) from a somewhat similar website, Superdickery. While this website does have more than its fair share of stinkers like YesButNo, the advantage of Superdickery is the convenient categories that make no bones about their contents. That way if you get sick of the mounds of lame unintentional sexual innuendos, you can avoid most of them and check out the “weird science” section for panels about quality inventions like the Helmet of Hate.

So if you’re yearning for some out-of-context humor, go right to Superdickery and skip the lame showing at YesButNo. Yeah, YesButNo’s list of unintentionally funny panels is newer than the old news Superdickery, but frankly it’s also unintentionally stupid.

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