The joke was Darwin didn’t like comics and thought they were for “Basement dwellers” until they catered to something he liked (IE he was in it) and he suddenly loved it after hating it. Half the joke was cut out. He Joke is he changed his tune as soon as it pandered to him instead of people who already read the shit.

The episode made fun of both sides of things, which is the best way to do it because as an artist who loves comics some of the poses are pretty ridiculous even if I don’t really CARE about it.