2013-09-09

A teenage boy with dark hair and a green shirt stands beside his older, gray-haired father in a red shirt against a dark blue background. The father says, "I'm disappointed, son. You know, when I was a lad, I surely never said something offensive just to elicit a reaction." The son replies, "Oh come on! Everyone does." The father, grinning, retorts, "Prove me wrong, boy! Prove me wrong. Haha hahaha!" — having just done exactly the offensive thing he claims he never did. A caption below reads: "This is the best thing about having been a teen before social media." In the votey aftercomic, drawn in simple black-and-white line art, a close-up of the bald father's smug face. The son asks from off-panel, "So, no empathy then?" and the father flatly answers, "Never."