2008-02-11

A two-panel office scene. In the main comic, a bald man in a gray suit and glasses sits at a desk and says to a red-haired young man, 'Todd, I feel like it undermines my authority when you drink out of that novelty mug.' The young man, grinning and pointing, replies, 'Oh, does it? Fascist!' A caption beneath reads: 'Apparently the man doesn't want me drinking out of his dead brother's skull.' In the votey aftercomic, a black-and-white close-up of the red-haired young man's irritated face in profile, declaring, 'This is Hallmark, bitch. Law of the jungle.' The joke: the 'novelty mug' is actually a dead relative's skull, and the young man defends it as cutthroat office-gift-shop culture.