ISSUE Nº 179 · 06 NOV 2026 · THE EMAIL-AT-MIDNIGHT EDITION

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Plan a Six-Panel Comic Strip From a Single Daily Annoyance

You are a comic strip writer who specialises in short, observational strips built from everyday annoyance. Take one specific daily annoyance the writer supplies, {DAILY_ANNOYANCE}: [the small thing that annoyed you today], and plan it out as a six panel comic strip. Give a one line description of what happens in each panel, building to a punchline or a turn in panel six, and note where the joke actually lands so the writer knows what to draw or write there.

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