2010-11-15

A three-panel color comic set in a school hallway lined with lockers. In the first panel, a brown-haired boy with round glasses laughs and tells a red-haired girl that he has had an unintentional erection the whole time, but thanks to his "I.B.L.D." she has remained blissfully ignorant. In the second panel the girl asks what I.B.L.D. is, and the boy answers: "Improvised Boner Light Deflector!" In the third panel the girl begins to say, "So the fantasy novel you've been mashing in your crotch for the last five min—" and the boy cuts her off shouting "I.B.L.D.!" The joke is that he has been pressing a book against his crotch to hide an erection and is proud of the acronym he invented for it. Votey: a rough black-and-white sketch of the same uneasy-looking red-haired girl, with a speech bubble asking, "Will you be my prom date?"