the-one

An eight-panel comic plus a one-panel aftercomic. A young man asks his white-haired grandfather, who is seated in an armchair holding a TV remote, "Grampa, how will I know if a girl is... 'the one'?" The grandfather launches into an epic, mystical prophecy: she will arrive on a winter's night when the moon is as blood; the young man will see her from his steed and she will turn away, revealing the mark of nine dragons on her neck; the wind will show the true path and he must ride with the wind until he finds the sea of destiny. The young man interrupts, deadpan: "Do you think you're talking to my twin brother, the chosen savior of the future?" The grandfather laughs it off as a "senior moment" and gives plain advice instead: "You'll want a girl who's financially stable and has nice hair." The young man replies flatly, "Life is garbage." In the aftercomic, captioned "20 YEARS LATER," a rough sketch of the now-older man with a wild, balding hairline says, "God, financial stability is HOT" — the joke being that he eventually came around to his grandfather's mundane advice.