mean

An orange-toned comic panel. Top caption reads "ME, LEARNING ABOUT HOMONYMS IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE:". A frustrated man with flame-like red hair and a red beard, wearing a green shirt and holding a dark tablet, rants in a large speech bubble: "BY WHAT MEANS DO THEY MEAN MANY MEANINGS?! I MEAN! THERE'S NO MEAN MEANS TO GET A MEAN OF MEANINGS! MEANINGS MEANDER! IT'S MEAN!" The joke piles up every sense of the word 'mean' (method, intend, average, cruel). In the votey aftercomic, a black-and-white sketch of the same bearded man's face has an arrow pointing to it labeled "my mien" — a homonym pun on 'mean/mien' (mien meaning one's appearance or demeanor).