fourth wall

Fourth wall breaking is considered anathema to webcomics, mainly because it has been done so much- practically every single webcomic will, at some point, break the fourth wall. Some do this well- by deliberately taking the characters out of context, (eg something positive) we do not lose a sense of reality in the comic, because this diversion is clearly silly. And sometimes they don't even do that, and it's still funny, as today's irregular webcomic attests to. I just like Nazi science jokes...