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Marco Polo

Non-Sequitur strip published in the July 23, 2001, edition of The Kansas City Star.

Here's an extremely dense example of the overuse of ellipses in what is otherwise a hilarious one-panel comic.

(If you don't get why this is funny, you need to know who Ahab was, what he was looking for, and what "Marco" means in this context.)

There are many ways to render ellipses wrong, and we've all seen them way too many times.

For example....here's one wrong way.
For example..here's another wrong way.
For example ...here's another wrong way.
For example... here's another wrong way.

But until July of 2003 I had never seen this wrong way.

There's more about ellipses here.

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