2012-12-04

A bearded man sits across a small table from a wary red-haired woman who clutches a coffee mug. The man says: "Before we go any further, you should know I once accidentally slept with my half-sister, then had all children born nine months later killed to make sure my incestuous offspring didn't survive." A caption below reads: "King Arthur rarely made it past the confession point of dating." Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the same sheepish bearded man adding, "Oh, and he'll be responsible for my demise at Camlann, so, I'm not really looking for a longterm thing?" The joke retells the Arthurian legends of Mordred (Arthur's incestuous son and killer at the Battle of Camlann) as catastrophically awkward first-date confessions.