In this case, I don't mind the wordiness. All you really need to read is the first line. Or, failing that, you could just look at the drawings in green.
I think the current image works fine. The suggested replacement doesn't really show "strongly worded" as much as it does understatement.
That. It looks like it's in a protest, where even an understatement would have the intended effect. This trope is about something that falls way below any kind of useful action.
The Internet misuses, abuses, and overuses everything.Agreed. I like the current as well, but it's really artifacted; does it look like that in the actual strip?
Granted, it then is used to load a typewriter that... oh wait, no. It really was nothing but a pointless letter.
...It did raise the boss's SICK BURN meter, though.
I have a message from another time...Well, no, it eliminates Demonhead Mobster Kingpin's second lifebar, that's gotta count for something.
Moon◊Wait, so he did load it into the tommygunwriter?
I have a message from another time...He fired it letter-by-letter
Bump; any other thoughts?
Clock is set.
Clock's up; locking for inactivity/lack of consensus. No action is to be taken based on this thread.
Here's a less wordy replacement: