2007-07-11

Main comic, single panel: A masked man strikes a dramatic swashbuckling pose with lightning bolts crackling around him. He wears a wide-brimmed hat, a flowing cape, a domino mask and mustache, a red sash, and a light-blue shirt with a large female (Venus) symbol on the chest. He declares, 'THEY CALL ME... FALLOPIO.' A brown-haired woman watches him from behind. The caption beneath reads: 'This is why I prefer female gynecologists.' The joke: a flamboyant caped gynecologist superhero whose name riffs on the Fallopian tubes, played as a reason to avoid male gynecologists. Votey (a small follow-up panel, sketchier line art): A man holds out a form and says, 'HEY STEVE COULD YOU FILL OUT THIS-' but a man in the same wide-brimmed hat cuts him off, insisting, 'IT'S FALLOPIO! FALLOPIO!' -- the superhero persona has taken over his everyday identity.