2014-09-30

A black-and-white comic. A man and a woman are having a tense conversation that turns out to be their divorce. The man frames each line as a joke setup. "Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "A woman who has finally come to terms with the fact that she's never found you physically attractive." He continues: "Why did the chicken cross the road?" "I don't know." "Because it was the only one to be eaten up by shame at her shallowness." Then: "What did one snowman say to the other? Don't you CARROT all about our children?" The woman looks pained. The man pleads, "I'm trying to lighten this divorce with humor, Jon? Can we at least acknowledge my pun?" The joke is that he keeps wrapping bitter divorce grievances in joke formats. In the votey aftercomic, the woman, drawn in a simpler doodle style, relents and admits with a faint smile, "Okay yeah, that was solid" - conceding that the carrot pun actually landed.