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Comics I Don't Understand 
The “Mama” one at the top is quite creepy! 🥶
A recent one that caught my eye
And a different flavor for her
Yeah, if this were offered straight, we’d be saying something about expressionism, or naturalism.
This whole post is a mystery to me. Is this AI generated, with the prompt “show me weird art about mothers”?
In fact, Weird Mom Art, by Rachel Deutsch, is quite a bit more normal. These Comics Perfectly Capture The Weirdness And Wonder Of Motherhood | HuffPost Life
ATTN BOISE ED:
Is this the sort of thing you used to see there?
Yes, Frog Applause can be mysterious. It somehow continues to exist as an outpost of surreal collage on GoComics!
For what it’s worth, the strip has over 31k followers. That’s a pretty good base.
If you don’t get “lost reading glasses,” you’re just not old enough to understand this comic. And “It makes sense in Boise” is just de facto hilarious (I’m not in Boise, ergo). What’s not to love about the existential angst of a pastry chef? And as for the last one, I’m pretty sure I’ve accidentally sent that text before. I’ll take a level quarter cup of Frog Applause any day. 🐸
I feel the succulents are deeply metaphorical.
Brian in STL (8): Do we have an insane asylum big enough for 31K patients?
That would barely be a start.
I thought the first one had to do with the black widow and the mantis both eating their mates, but the “my son” seems to put a halt to that.
Today there is a sort of meta comic.