sicky

A single-panel comic. A cheerful blonde woman in a pink shirt stands at the front of a room, one hand raised, enthusiastically addressing a small group of seated children and people viewed from behind. She says, "And then there'll be four paus on ponies named Sicky, Stiffy, Stabby, and Starvy!" — a child-friendly mangling of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Pestilence, Death, War, Famine). The caption below reads: "The best part of the Unabridged Children's Bible is Revelations." The joke is that she is gleefully narrating the apocalypse to children as if it were a fun bedtime story. Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the same smiling woman, who adds, "It's like Snow White but everyone goes to sleep forever!" — reframing mass death as a fairy-tale sleep.