evolution

Main comic: a single panel showing a bearded man with light brown hair in a light blue collared shirt, talking with an enthusiastic expression. His speech bubble reads: "We took asexual bacteria and introduced them to TV for 20000 generations. At generation 20001 we abruptly took TV away, then... something startling happened." A caption beneath the panel reads: "Dr. Lenski elucidated a new theory for the evolution of sexual reproduction." The joke parodies real long-term bacterial evolution experiments, suggesting sexual reproduction evolved because microbes, deprived of TV, sought each other out instead.

Votey: a roughly hand-drawn square frame containing two blobby single-celled organisms positioned apart from each other. The cell in the upper left has a speech bubble saying "Hey," awkwardly trying to talk to the other cell across the empty space, like two lonely creatures with nothing to do now that the TV is gone.