From another comment, it’s probably a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_man_formation

It’s happened before, and is very cute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UAkiTbtsT8

The pin designs from the author comment:

I was worried for a second there when I confused which post you were responding to and thought you were talking about mass orgies here:

I literally post the alt text as it’s defined in the HTML, which for this site is just a transcript of all of the words in the drawn portion of the comic. They generate those transcripts somehow, I assume interns or nowadays AI. It’s distinct from the practice of alt text in webcomics as commonly providing an extra joke (which is in fact most often the title text; alt text is only displayed when an image won’t load)

Some background on this comic:

Transcript of relevant bits:

In my first year or so of drawing The Far Side, I was scared to death of making mistakes in the artwork. Incredibly, I had never heard of a product called “White Out” (for covering up mistakes) and the smallest screw-up meant starting over. So, as I’ve indicated under each of these cartoons, I sometimes left things out

The fellow coming through the door is incompletely drawn because I feared the lines of his body would interfere with the auditioner’s head. Obviously, I choked.

https://allenai.org/olmo

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

I was nervous about this cartoon when its “debut” approached. At the time, a cartoon depicting a human head in a jar was, shall we say, uncommon on the comic pages. Strangely enough, I never received or heard a single complaint about this cartoon―and I believe the main reason was the drawing itself (of course, The Far Side was only in four newspapers at the time). The point of the humor, I felt, was the innocent fascination children have for things they find almost anywhere―the beach, the woods, etc.―and the fact that this “innocence” was about to come crashing down on top of this pleasant-looking schoolteacher. I was careful, however, to make the head in the jar look sort of silly and benign―any gratuitous details would have distracted from the humor and I think repelled a lot of readers.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript (Sketch):

I’m not going to panic… There’s a bee in the car, but I’m going to stay calm until I’ve stopped the car… Remember, they don’t sting unless provoked… I’m not going to panic…

Transcript (Commentary):

The original and unpublished version of this is shown on the top. I’m unclear as to why I changed it. Looking at it now, I may have made the wrong decision. Naaaaaah.

The mentioned poster:

https://xcancel.com/Exocomics/status/979451931369209857

We’re right around the point at which this isn’t a joke

Some good explanatory comments last time this was posted:

https://discuss.online/post/39870945

I think the joke is that the humanoid robot might milk them a little bit too enthusiastically

It looks like he’s fantasizing about a duck to me

It’s a pun on “breaks the ice”. The one penguin breaks the ice by pointing out an awkward spelling mistake. That lets the “enimy” in through the now-broken ice

You think they’re talking about a person named Bob, but then you realize they released some creature onto the dance floor that was previously in the jar labelled “Bob”

This is cool, but until we can probe further into black holes, seems unfalsifiable

Looks like they fixed the typo:

The joke is that’s a famous phrase of Popeye’s, and Larson was imagining a very different context for where he’d use it

yֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר yֶהְיֶה