The artwork rarely changes; each strip usually features the same series of panels depicting the same clip art dinosaurs frozen in the exact same poses.
The genius here is Ryan North's writing, which transcends (or, perhaps, is magnified by) the constraints he's chosen for the work. Animated strictly by his words, these static figures have more personality and comic timing than most people — which makes them, in North's own words, "pretty okay."
I'm particularly fond of T-Rex, who is just deep enough to latch onto the Big Ideas and just shallow enough to be wildly impressed with his own limited command of them. (In this, he reminds me of myself.)
This, by the way, is one of those things you either get or you don't. If you make a pilgrimage to qwantz.com to read a few installments, you'll either walk off shaking your head … or lose hours to spams of uncontrollable laughter.
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