fantasy-2

A four-panel SMBC comic. A father and his young child stand together on a grassy hill at night under a starry sky, shown first in silhouette and then in close-up; the dad holds a mug. The child asks, "Dad, you ever feel bad you didn't grow up to be what you wanted when you were a kid?" The dad replies, "Nah. Like a lot of those fantasies were incompatible. 16-year-old me wanted to have 8 hot chicks treating me as a sort of sex-emperor 24/7. 5-year-old me wanted to be a cheetah. I mean how you gonna do both? If you try to be a cheetah who's a sex-emperor, you can't fully commit to either, and you end up with nothing. That's just common sense." The child responds flatly, "Dad, this conversation is neither helpful nor age-appropriate." The dad answers, "I'm being the father of my fantasies." Votey (a small bonus panel showing a line-drawn profile of the deadpan child's face): the child adds, "Coulda been sex-cheetah" — pointing out that combining the two fantasies could have worked after all.