2008-10-15

A color comic panel shows a group of men at a bar table with beer mugs and a pizza. A red-haired man gestures and brags, 'Ha! That's nothin'! You guys ever had hot wax melted lovingly over the small of your back?' A man in a red sweater answers uneasily, 'N-no...' The red-haired man continues, 'Well, neither had I... until last night!' A caption below reads, 'Todd's masturbation stories are really starting to creep me out.' The joke: Todd describes intimate, sensual experiences as if they happened with a partner, but the punchline implies he did all of it to himself. The votey (a black-and-white bonus panel) shows two people standing close; one offers a bundle of flowers and the other asks, 'Roses? For me?' — playing on the same theme of someone romancing themselves.