https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2002-12-25
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Seriously though, where does Santa get his raw materials? Does he do work on the side? Something doesn’t add up.
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In 2002, it wasn’t “too soon”.
Now, it’s ALWAYS too soon.
I could see this in Cyanide & Happiness since they don’t mind tasteless jokes, but yeah I doubt Zach would do another one like this nowadays. Kind of interesting though, given that this was written 3 years after Columbine, which probably had more media coverage than any subsequent shooting. It seems like early SMBC was still leaning more towards C&H-style humor than XKCD-style humor.