2014-09-25

A stern, bespectacled old man with white hair leans in close to a young boy, lecturing him intensely. His speech bubble reads: "Imagine you're a general. Your army is the only chance to keep your race alive. You know that if you send them out, almost all of them will die. The question becomes, boy, do you have the stomach for war?" The boy stares back warily. The caption beneath reads: "I'm glad we had Grampa give Bobby the sex talk." The joke is that Grampa is framing reproduction and the sex talk as a wartime sacrifice (sperm as soldiers). Votey (aftercomic): a roughly-sketched character asks "What's 'oral sex'?" and is answered, "A suicide mission."