investment

A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A man excitedly tells a woman, "Great news, wife! I'm an investor now." She asks, "An investor in what?" He replies, "Fire!" Panel 2: The man stands grinning between two flaming torches, explaining, "Fire is the ideal investment because it grows exponentially and you can get lots of fire by spending a little fire!" Panel 3: He gleefully sets an armchair ablaze in their living room while the woman watches from a doorway, saying, "I'm makin' my fire work for me!" Panel 4: The woman, furious, shouts, "You're just burning all of our stuff! Where are we going to live?!" The man, eyes shifting nervously, answers, "Gotta spend fire to make fire!" The joke applies investment cliches literally to a man who is simply burning everything they own. Votey: A black-and-white close-up of the woman's exasperated, angry face as she snaps, "Fire is not a diverse portfolio!"