if-i-were-rich

A six-panel comic showing a conversation between a red-haired woman and a brown-haired man, drawn in simple color cartoon style. The woman asks, "Would you love me more if I were rich?" The man answers, "Probably yeah." He elaborates earnestly that if she were rich they could work less and spend more time together, forming a deeper bond. The woman adds they'd have slightly higher average happiness, reducing bickering. The man continues that they could afford to be in settings conducive to emotional conversation, like the ocean, remote forests, and mountaintops. The woman, looking unimpressed, says, "Sometimes a question is more than just its words." The man, baffled, replies, "Am I a mind-reader?" The joke: he takes a romantic emotional question hyper-literally instead of grasping its real meaning. Votey (black-and-white aftercomic): A close-up of the man's face. An off-panel voice asks, "How does your hair stay up?" He deadpans, "It's very expensive."