2008-08-07

A two-panel comic. Panel 1: A man leans romantically toward a blonde woman in a dim purple room and says, 'Whaddya say we... get a little house on a cool stretch of beach in the Northwest, and live together, just you and I.' She swoons, 'Oh, Tom!' Panel 2, captioned 'Soon...': Tom grins as he hangs over a wooden staircase banister, holding a string, and shouts 'I call top half!' A handmade sign dangling from the stairs reads 'NO GIRLS ALLOWED!' The joke: his romantic proposal turns out to be a childish clubhouse arrangement where he claims the upstairs and bars the woman. Votey: A rough black-and-white sketch of the beach house exterior with a nail sticking up and a 'POONK!' sound effect, as if the structure is being nailed together.