break-it-down

A single-panel comic. An advisor or coach, hand raised, leans toward another person and says, "Whoa, whoa. The problem is you're thinking about this as one big job. And so you keep vacillating about whether to do it, but you can break it into a bunch of small easy jobs you complete one at a time." The caption beneath reads: "Thanks to task decomposition, Hamlet successfully revenge-killed his uncle and lived happily ever after." Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of Hamlet's face listening as the advisor, off-panel, continues in a large speech bubble: "No killing your friends, no driving your girlfriend to madness. It's about good habits, focus, and productivity." The joke applies modern productivity/task-decomposition advice to the plot of Hamlet, then in the votey reframes it as ordinary self-help, comically draining the tragedy out of the play.