2012-01-22

A red caption banner reads: "In an alternate reality, Hitler was captured and punished with a career in demeaning carnival work." In the panel, a smiling man stands in the foreground at a carnival, a roller coaster looming behind. He asks, "Hey Hitler. How tall do you have to be to ride the roller coaster?" A weary-looking Hitler, in a green carnival worker's shirt, holds his arm straight out at chest height in a measuring gesture that doubles as a Nazi salute, replying, "Zis tall!" The votey, drawn in loose black-and-white sketch style, shows the same man asking, "Which way are corn dogs," and Hitler again raising his arm to point, saying, "Zat way!" The joke: degraded into carnival duties, Hitler's every gesture still lands as an involuntary salute.