2004-04-28

Main comic, single panel: a blonde woman cheerfully holds up an object toward a brown-haired man in a purple shirt and tie. She says, "I ironed your favorite shirt! Go ahead! Put it on!" But the thing she's holding is clearly not a shirt — it's a wad of jagged, sharp-toothed metal that looks like a row of blades or a bear trap. The man points to himself warily. A caption reads: "Wait a minute! That's not my favorite shirt! No, no, she's definitely up to something..." Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the man, now wearing the jagged metal contraption around his neck like a collar, looking pained. He says, "It chafes a little." The joke: despite obviously recognizing it's a deadly trap, he politely puts it on anyway and only mildly complains.