Today’s comic featured me being sucked into the Dilbert world. A tiny and poorly drawn version of me is complaining about violating the “third wall.”
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Many readers gleefully wrote to tell me I’m an idiot and I should have said “fourth wall.” That’s what it’s called when a stage actor talks directly to the audience. The actor is violating the imaginary fourth wall between the actors and the audience.
Other people noted that since a comic strip is two-dimensional, perhaps I was intentionally calling it the third wall when it would normally be the fourth.
Was I being extra stupid or extra clever?
Discuss.