intervention

A single-panel comic on a red background. A woman with dark hair (seen from behind, in profile) confronts a smiling middle-aged man in a suit and red tie. Her speech, in a large balloon, lists the classic signs of addiction: "You've got all the signs. You're dependent on it just to feel safe and happy. You keep engaging in the same behaviors, even though you know they're destructive. You're losing your sense of reality and proportion, and it's harming everyone around you. STOP." The man grins and replies, "But I need it!" A caption beneath reads: "What if the war on drugs is a form of addiction?" The joke is that the man's denial-of-an-addict response is being aimed at the war on drugs itself. Votey (aftercomic): a close-up line drawing of the same man, now looking sheepish, offering a compromise in a handwritten balloon: "How about I just give up weed?"