Took me 3 reads to figure out that it goes top to bottom on the left, then top to bottom on the right. If there was funniness originally, it was lost in the confusion of trying to read it...
Oh so I didn't even get it right in the end. Some of it might just be me being stupid, but most of it is the presentation's fault. The audience here can't be expected to know this convention, by default comics in English go left to right, top to bottom.
It's funny that the only way it makes sense is to read it left column first, assume the character has already thrown the stick a first time and is picking it up to throw it again between the last frame on the left and the first frame on the right.