frog-prince-2

A three-panel comic. Panel 1: A green frog wearing a small crown sits on a rock and says to a young woman with reddish hair, "Kiss me and I will become a prince and marry you!" She replies, "What would that entail?" Panel 2: Close-up of the smiling crowned frog, who explains the perks of royalty: "Vast estates! We'll draw income from without doing any labor or creating any innovations! The ability to make war on surrounding counties for the sheer sport of it! Thousands and thousands of hereditarily-bound servants!" Panel 3: Labeled "SOON." The woman has thrown the frog into a roaring campfire, which blazes up against a green landscape; the frog is gone. Votey (aftercomic): The woman, drawn in loose sketch style, has a thought bubble reading, "From now on, I only want to be screwed by democratically-elected rulers!" The joke contrasts the absurd hereditary privileges of monarchy with a preference for democratic government.