anthroplogy

A single wide panel, drawn nature-documentary style. A man with brownish-red spiky hair and a yellow-gold collared shirt stands in a dim, blue-tinted room beside a tall dark bookcase filled with books, with a small messy pile of books on a shelf nearby. He holds a red-covered book open and is riffling/fanning its pages with his thumb, gazing down at it with a flat, slightly grumpy expression. The caption underneath reads in nature-narrator style: "As part of its courtship display, the male will ruffle the pages of its Jane Austen novels, making them appear to have been read." The joke frames a man faking that he has read literary classics to seem more attractive, as if it were animal mating behavior. Votey: a loose line drawing of a man's face in profile, contentedly saying in a speech bubble, "Ahh, springtime..."