2011-07-26

Main comic, single panel: An orange-haired young woman stands next to her father, who calmly sips from a white mug. In a large speech bubble she says, "Hello, Dad. Since I have so much time on my hands, I've decided to become sexually active, beginning with a boy who will come over for dinner often, and whose political views are so wildly naïve, you'll want to strangle him with his own Che Guevara t-shirt." A caption beneath the panel reads: "Sally convinced me to buy her that new video game." The joke: this is the elaborate threat the daughter uses to extort a video game from her father.

Votey: A grinning young man (the threatened boyfriend) faces the dark silhouette of the father. His t-shirt is covered in slogans: "Make love not genetically modified organisms. Go anarchy. Go socialism!" — confirming the naïve politics the daughter described.