war-2

A six-panel comic. A bearded man and a woman with reddish hair and glasses are talking. The man says, "I think if women ruled, there'd be less war." The woman replies, "Way less." She continues, growing more animated, "War is for showoff genders. Most of the time all you need is an assassination and targeted propaganda." She then quotes an imagined cover story: "'Died suddenly, but no signs of violence, appears to have been visiting his mistress and doing drugs.'" The man, looking uneasy, says, "Please stop getting more specific." The joke is that her vision of a more peaceful female-ruled world is actually just more efficient, deniable political murder. Votey (aftercomic): a loose hand-drawn sketch in a wobbly frame showing the silhouette of a person from behind, with the letters "A.L.L." scrawled across their body.