2005-03-16

A single-panel comic. A bald man in glasses and a green shirt sits in a chair holding a clipboard, speaking to a blonde woman in a red swimsuit who reclines on a lounge chair with a hand dramatically on her forehead. He says, "Have you considered that your extreme vulnerability to suggestion might stem from your desire to sleep with me tonight?" She exclaims, "Oh my God! Of course!" The caption below reads, "Stephie had just realized the cure for cancer" -- the joke being that her supposed epiphany is just suggestibility driven by attraction, not any real insight. Votey (aftercomic): a deliberately crude pencil sketch of a woman's head with a thought bubble, topped by a handwritten note reading "Note to self: Never draw perspective again," a self-deprecating jab at the rough drawing.