2006-01-30

A single-panel comic set in a bar. A smiling man in a green polo shirt has his arm around a blonde woman and gives a thumbs-back gesture toward another woman in a pink dress standing further down the bar. He says, "Oh her? I mean, we came together, but we're not, like, dating." The caption below reads: "Technically, I wasn't lying about my wife." The joke: he's deflecting that the pink-dress woman is his date, while the woman on his arm is actually his wife, so his denial is technically true. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-drawn sketch titled "The shape of this bar:" depicting a graph with a curve that starts flat at the left and slopes steeply upward to the right, with two stick figures struggling to climb up the steep slope — a literal pun on the word "bar."