2007-04-05

Main comic, one panel: a bald man stands behind a couch where a red-haired woman sits holding a small box. The man calmly says, "I'm gonna go cheat on you with my secretary while imagining the lovelife we had when we were newlyweds." The woman, equally matter-of-fact, replies, "I'm gonna sit up waiting for you and crying, drink myself into a stupor, then yell something psychologically damaging to the kids." A caption beneath reads: "The foundation of a good marriage is honesty." The joke is that brutal mutual honesty about awful behavior is framed as healthy candor. Votey (aftercomic, black-and-white): the woman tells the man, "I just stabbed you in the head" — and indeed a knife is buried in the side of his skull. The man, blandly, says, "Still thinking about the secretary."