abduction

A four-panel SMBC comic. A woman with curly hair and glasses sits beside a man, earnestly telling him: "I believe aliens abducted and had sex with me." The man replies, "Wow!" She continues with an elaborate story: alien beings traveled for centuries across the galaxy through deadly space, landed on Earth, decided the most attractive species was a particular type of hairless ape, and then selected HER — Bob — over any Olympic athlete, great artist, genius scientist, or head of state. The man, hand on his chin, deadpans, "Now that you say it out loud it sounds even more likely." In the final panel he asks, "Do you write self-esteem books? Because I am prepared to buy." The joke: he's gently mocking the grandiose, self-flattering logic of her claim. Votey (aftercomic): a simple drawing of the woman's face with the caption "What a burden to be so desired by aliens," leaning into her unshakable self-importance.