“A. Square” is the pseudonym used by the author of Flatland, an 1884 satirical novella that uses the concept of dimensionality to mock victorian society. The yet-to-be-released game Miegakure is based partially off of Flatland, as it too plays with the concept of dimensions and transporting between them.
The Author of this comic strip has made a couple of jokes while referencing both of these concepts. The first joke occurs when a two-dimensional character asks, “What’s up?”, as he would truly have no concept of “up”. The second of the two jokes is that the Author drew on A. Square in order to make him look like Spongebob Squarepants, a character from a children’s cartoon show. This last joke is funny because a cartoon character is two dimensional, much like the square.
