onions

A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A woman with glasses in a white lab coat triumphantly holds up an onion and declares she has genetically modified it so it no longer makes people cry. Panel 2: A second woman in a green shirt cuts the onion with a knife while the scientist watches. Panel 3: The woman in green smiles and says "It works!" Panel 4: The woman in green happily exclaims "Science is so amazing!" while the scientist reaches toward her with alarm, shouting "Stop that!" The joke: the scientist seems to object not to the onion failing, but to being praised. Votey (aftercomic): A close-up of the scientist looking down with her hand on her chin, thinking, "Maybe if I cut out her tear ducts..." revealing she is fixated on stopping the crying by any means, however dark.