Loot

A four-panel comic. A red-haired, red-bearded Viking raider confronts a modern man in a contemporary home. Panel 1: The Viking complains, "Damnit, these appliances don't even work!" The seated modern man replies, "Planned obsolescence." Panel 2: The Viking asks if he has an ancestral sword or helmet; the man says his dad's stuff was just old magazines and cheap furniture that went straight to the dump. Panel 3: The Viking brandishes a sword shouting "I will take your land!" The man deadpans, "This is a rental." Panel 4: A deflated Viking asks, "Bro, what's the use in raiding and looting when everything is disposable?" The man offers, "Do you want something permanent to steal? I have a lot of debt." The joke: modern disposable, debt-financed consumer life leaves a Viking raider with nothing worth plundering. Votey: A close-up of the grumpy Viking's face as he resolves, "I'm gonna go loot one of those Nordic social democracies."