peak

A captioned text comic. The header reads "THE ARGUMENT AGAINST ANTHROPOCENTRISM, ACCOMPLISHED IN A SINGLE HAIKU." Below, inside a light blue box, is a haiku in block letters: "HUMANS ARE THE PEAK? / THE ELEPHANT: MORE NEURONS, / PREHENSILE PENIS." The joke deflates human exceptionalism by noting an elephant outdoes us on neuron count and anatomy. Votey (aftercomic): a small black-and-white scene of a mother holding a child. The child asks, "Mama, what does Daddy do for a living?" The mother, looking weary, answers, "Nothing, sweetie. Nothing." — implying Daddy is the haiku-writing poet whose work amounts to nothing.