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Laconic Fairy Tales.

Wrong Hands is a web comic by John Atkinson. It tends to the gag-a-day one-panel format, with a higher-than-average literary Shout-Out ratio... and a much-higher-than-average pun content.

The comic is updated irregularly, but usually at least once a week.

Tropes used in Wrong Hands include:

• Deconstruction: Saint Peter meets a priest, a rabbi, and a minister
• Droste Image: wasting timeline
• Hard on Soft Science: simple instructions – historian
• I Read That As: The "phonetically defined" series
  • "understands: situated below the bleachers"
  • "gravy: resembling a cemetery plot"
• Laconic:
  • abridged classics: War and Peace, The Grapes of Wrath, Don Quixote, The Sun Also Rises, Moby Dick, and Ulysses
  • (more) abridged classics: The Odyssey, Wuthering Heights, Walden, Crime and Punishment, Beowulf, and Dante's Inferno.
  • abridged cinema: Jurassic Park, Citizen Kane, The Godfather, King Kong, Casablanca, and The Ten Commandments
  • Hamlet in one limerick
  • Macbeth in one limerick
  • Moby-Dick in one limerick
  • Ulysses in one limerick
• Mind Screw: scale drawing not to scale
• Nice Hat: thinking caps.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: another everyday foodie menu
• So Okay It's Average: defrosted
• Take That: The Jane Austen board game, showing how her plots are Strictly Formula.
• Technology Marches On: fossils from the early Device Age