2012-12-11

A black-and-white-into-color SMBC comic about a couple framing sex in the language of abstract algebra. Panel 1: an orange-haired man exclaims, "Quick! I think I've discovered a new form of sex!" Panel 2: a dark-haired woman responds, "To the laboratory!" A banner reads "Soon..." Panel 3: the two lie in bed together; the woman says, "Interesting, but with some rotation, it's isomorphic to several sexes we've had in the past." Panel 4: the man muses, "Perhaps all of sex has been discovered," and the woman replies, "Perhaps, but we should remember that the set of all sex we'll have is finite in cardinality, so even homomorphisms should be cherished." Panel 5: the man, touched, says, "Yeah. Yeah, that's a beautiful point." Panel 6: the two smile contentedly. Panel 7: the man asks, "Did you know that 2+1 = 3?" and the woman flatly shuts him down: "It's not happening, Frank." Votey: the man, shown in profile, offers a complex-number compromise: "2+i is okay."