'Grim' strips

[oppyu]

Criteria:
1) No jokes
2) No characters smiling, laughing, or showing any other positive emotion.

783 Cold Blooded (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0783.html)
796 Smash (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0796.html)
842 All in the Family (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0842.html)

... that's been happening depressingly often lately. Any other examples? I've gone backwards to 742, but I don't have all day to read Oots here.

[ti'esar]

...Three strips out of a hundred? That's a pretty low standard for "often".

Not sure what your point is, anyway, since it's quite possible to have a very dark strip with people smiling or laughing.

[An Enemy Spy]

You'd probably have to go back to a little bit after they left the Dungeon of Dorukan to find an arc that didn't have entirely serious strips in it. It's called story telling.
I don't see what this proves.

[Incom]

796's "STOP TALKING" is arguably a "brick joke" to when Miko told Roy that when they fought that one time.

On that note, her death scene qualifies.

[MoonCat]

There were jokes in the latest strip, just not at the end.

[martianmister]

Criteria:
1) No jokes
842 All in the Family (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0842.html)

:belkar: "Whoa! That is one room full of dead redshirts redheads."