the-family-business

A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a stern dark-haired man in a suit shouts a speech bubble: "Son, I don't care about your 'creative ambitions!' You'll go into the family business of dramatically throwing goblets of brandy into flames!" Panel 2: a worried blond young man in a suit replies, "It's not a business! It's just you wasting your inheritance money!" Panel 3: the father stands in a dim, wood-paneled study with arms flung wide, having just thrown a goblet of brandy into a fireplace with a fiery "FWOOSH!", yelling, "You're no son of mine!" Votey: a hand-drawn close-up of the blond son's sad face with the caption, "Wanna cry and break rare vases?" The joke contrasts the father's absurdly theatrical "family business" of burning brandy with the son's reluctant inheritance of the same melodramatic, money-wasting habits.