Monster

A six-panel comic. A man discovers a yellow monster with flame-like horns under the bed, shouting that it ate his kids. Instead of acting like a monster, the creature responds in detached corporate-legalese: it says the accountability does not lie with it, because it is part of a multinational corporation grown so large its own goals are inscrutable even to itself. The man frets that he has no idea why he's here and nobody else does either. The monster, mouth opening wider, explains that blameworthiness is so widely distributed that suing would only exhaust the man's health and wealth, multiplying injustice while gaining no redress for future victims. The man defiantly says he'll complain to one of the inscrutably vast public sector bureaucracies, and the monster cheerfully tells him to say hi to its former executives. The joke: a child-eating monster excuses itself with the diffuse, accountability-free logic of a giant bureaucratic corporation. Votey (a small follow-up panel): plain text reading 'If Monsters Inc. is about a corporation how come we never see any shareholders? Ridiculous.'