paradise-3

Main comic: a vertical stack of colorful book spines, each bearing the next title in a mock series riffing on John Milton's epics. From top to bottom they read: 'Paradise Lost,' 'Paradise Regained,' 'Oh fuck we lost paradise again,' 'Ah, there it is,' and 'Hey Sally it was under the couch like you said it was!' A caption beneath the stack reads, 'Milton's later works failed to enter the Western Canon.' The joke is that the dignified titles deteriorate into the frantic, mundane dialogue of someone who keeps literally misplacing paradise around the house. Votey: a similar stack of plain black-and-white book spines parodying Shakespeare's 'Love's Labour's Lost,' reading top to bottom: 'LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST,' 'LOVE'S LABOUR'S WON,' 'LOVE'S LABOUR TIED,' and finally 'LOVE'S LABOUR CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER.'