2013-11-27

A seven-panel black-and-white comic. A young child complains to his father: "Dad! I'm tired of your dumb jokes! Why don't you mix it up for once?!" The dad, a bespectacled man, replies "Mix it up, eh?" and proceeds to tell a deliberately inverted, gruesome joke: "A bar goes into a man. The bar says 'oops! I think we're doing this backward!' The man says nothing because all that remains of him is sprayed blood and scraps of flesh! A priest, a rabbi, and a philosopher walk into the bar. But nothing they say will ever make this right." In the final panel the child looks disturbed while the dad looks smugly satisfied. Votey: A close-up of the dad's face. The child begins another joke, "How many lightbulbs does it take to—" and the dad immediately cuts him off with a flat "NOPE."