I was baffled by an incorrect narrative I was constructing: The aliens are laser-burning a mutation into the human genome in the first panel [and specifically the Y chromosome]; then battling in an abandoned city with a colonnade; then withdrawing and leaving a different neighborhood intact, because of something they learn in the human/alien dictionary. And for some reason that leads them to misspell their victory message.
…. And then I looked at panel 1 on a different scale.
From Le Vieux Lapin, who desisted from his not-understanding once he learned how the game is played! However, there does remain a non-obvious aspect, which your editors did not see for quite a while, and which is mainly the joke!
Seems like Brevity tries out a pun every single day. Sometimes they may hit all right.
Ah well, this may raise the perpetual question, Can an auditory pun survive being put into writing when that breaks up a double meaning?
Okay, a LOL but a sad-LOL.
I generally grudge-read PBF, along with a couple other hyper-cynical comics. But this one struck me as funny and appealing.
And really nice is the collection of rock stuff in the middle panel. That’s a Yellow Submarine picture on the wall, the album on the bed with the yellow smear is probably the banana-cover Velvet Underground first album, the open mouth next to it seems Rolling Stones related. And is the blimp picture a reference to Led Zeppelin?
Hah! Gotcha, Mothra! From Andréa. (Who suggests there is word play going on between ‘Mothra’ and treating it as a ‘moth’. But isn’t that just what the name is about?)
Absurdism, put in its place.
Contributed by Andréa, who says “Particularly funny for me, as mysteries are my favorite genre.”
Submitted as an LOL by Peter. Winter Wallaby would also give it an Oy tag. And maybe a Geezer tag?
Sent in by ChemGal, with emphasis on the bonus panel.
… the pop happens when the seal is broken for the first time.
After that, the button goes up and remains up.
Submitted by somebody who claims “I didn’t send you this, it was my dog.”
A minute after I put that in the queue, I saw this:
Not the greatest example of synchronicity; but I’m adding all the other tags anyway…
Okay, he distracted him and shot him with a sleep dart. But what does the full moon have to do with anything?
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