Curse

A comic. In a torchlit tomb, a bandaged mummy rises from its stone sarcophagus and points at two men who have entered — a bearded man in a coat and another partly visible in the foreground. The mummy declares: "For that you have disturbed my tomb, you shall die at a typical actuarial rate, but perceive it as unusually high!" A caption below reads: "My favorite genre is Stats Horror." The joke is a mummy's curse that is statistically mundane but feels dreadful. Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the mummy with its arm raised, continuing the curse: "From now on, whenever one of you dies, people will treat it as if it's surprising that anyone ever dies!"