2012-03-09

Main comic, single panel: An elderly man with wild white hair, round glasses, and suspenders sits in a chair, holding a finger to his nose as he picks it. He says, "IT ALL GOES IN HERE," while several grandchildren sit and stand around him listening, a framed mountain-and-sun landscape painting on the wall behind them. A caption below reads: Grandpa refers to this as his "circle of life" — implying he eats his boogers, recycling what goes up his nose. Votey (black-and-white sketch aftercomic): One woman says to another, "OH GOD. NOW THAT YOU'RE 30, YOU'RE WEARING SUSPENDERS LIKE THE OLD MEN IN YOUR COMIC?" The second woman, wearing suspenders, replies, "THE REAL QUESTION YOU SHOULD BE ASKING IS WHAT THEY'RE HOLDING UP" — a self-referential nod by the cartoonist that the suspenders may be holding up something other than pants.