2010-02-27

An SMBC comic. A top caption reads: "After the genes for personality were determined, having children became far more terrifying." In the main panel, a worried mother cradling a baby in her arms asks a doctor, "Is something wrong with my baby?" The older, bespectacled doctor, reading from a clipboard, replies, "I'm sorry, ma'am... he's a dickhead." The joke: personality genes can now be diagnosed at birth. The votey (bonus panel, in rough black-and-white sketch style) shows two men arguing. One protests, "Genes don't work that way!" The other, a shirtless, scruffy, smug-looking man, retorts, "I'm a celebrity!" The first man shoots back, "Celebrities can afford a shirt!"