2008-05-05

A cartoon woman stands gesturing toward a small red-haired child in a dim room. She says, "Well, I guess she's cannibalizing her own babies in heaven now." A caption beneath reads: "Mom disagreed with my views on the hamster afterlife." In the votey aftercomic, a rough black-and-white line drawing of a woman adds cheerfully, "Like all mommies!" The joke: a parent dismally reassures her child about a dead pet hamster by describing it eating its young in heaven, then breezily generalizes that all mothers do this.