voodoo

A three-panel comic. Panel 1: a green-skinned figure holds up a small doll and tells a blond man, "This is a voodoo doll. You will feel whatever I do to it." Panel 2: the blond man calmly replies that he has worked for a temp agency for 30 years, so physical pain is to him as a passing breeze. Panel 3: the green figure says, "I'm shortening the doll's daily lunch break, from 30 minutes to 25 minutes" — and the blond man screams in agony, "AAAAAAA AAAA AAA DAA!!" The joke: a hardened temp worker shrugs off physical torture but is devastated by a cut to his break time. Votey aftercomic: a close-up of a weary, long-haired person who responds to the threat with resigned defiance, "Ech, I'll just double my smoke break."