CAD Rule

What is the “CAD-Rule?”. According to Urban Dictionary, it is:

The theory that, if one removes the second and third panel of a Ctrl+Alt+Del comic, it becomes much funnier.

There is a lot of talk about the fact that Tim Buckley doesn’t know where to stop explaining a joke. This in turn - probably courtesy of some goons - gave rise to the rule described above. This site generates CAD Comics based on this rule. Are they funnier? I’m hesitant to make a sweeping generalisation, but there is ample evidence to support this viewpoint:

The original site ran a live PHP generator that applied this to any CAD strip on demand, plus a Tumblr that archived each one. Those are long gone (though the archive remains), but I kept this page around for posterity.

It was often imperfect. Speech bubbles would be cut off, or be included from discarded panels. Some comics didn’t even follow the four-panel layout, and so were terrible. But it still sometimes got a laugh.

CAD and all related media remains the property of Tim Buckley; I merely made this tool as a bit of fun.