2015-02-15

A six-panel comic. A man holds up an old, hole-riddled shirt and tells his bearded partner: "God! Throw out this shirt! You've had it since we were dating. It's covered in holes!" The bearded man, in growing emotional close-up across the panels, replies gravely: "You don't understand. The shirt is cursed. It grows older. I stay the same age" — framing himself like a vampire or immortal bound to the garment. The first man flatly says, "No you don't," and the bearded man, face anguished in extreme close-up, clarifies: "I mean emotionally." In the votey aftercomic, drawn in loose black-and-white sketch, the first man relents: "Okay, keep your stupid Star Wars shirt," and the bearded man, smug, answers: "Oh I will."