2007-04-16

Main comic: In a stylized panel layout, a bald scientist in a lab coat excitedly tells an older professor, "Professor, look! We've created an antibody that could cure your wife!" The professor replies, "Oh! And just in the nick of time!" He leans in to peer through a large purple microscope. The circular view through the microscope eyepiece reveals a slide that simply reads "SUCKER!" A caption below states: "It took three years' research to make the particles do that." The joke: the researchers spent three years arranging microscopic particles to spell out a prank insult to their boss. Votey (aftercomic), black-and-white: a banner reads "THAT NIGHT..." and the bald professor cheerfully announces to someone offscreen, "Hey honey, they found a cure!" — oblivious that he was being pranked.