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This comic retells the story of the Trojan Horse as a metaphor for a common relationship dynamic. The first panels show the classic scene: Greek soldiers present the Trojan Horse as a gift, the Trojan

This comic satirizes the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) and American broadcast decency standards. A woman holding a baby threatens a group of people: "Gimme all your wallets, or I'''ll expose

This comic contrasts "what is said" versus "what is meant" when someone criticizes a musician's career choice. In the top panel, labeled "What is said," an older man in a suit tells a young saxophone

This comic is titled "The Man with the World's Smallest Penis." In the top panel, a woman in bed excitedly says, "Ooh! I've never done it with a world record holder!" while the man cheerfully replies,

## The Joke The comic presents two characters discussing the difference between a scientist and a normal person. When a normal person doesn't understand something, they feel confused. When a scientis

This comic uses the principles of homeopathy against homeopathy practitioners themselves. One person tells another, "Think about it. The fewer of you there are, the stronger your effect gets." The lis

This four-panel comic skewers the hypocrisy of a common relationship complaint. A bald man grumbles to his friend, "Ugh... my freakin' wife!" and then declares, "Women always expect you to read their

This comic depicts what Weinersmith labels "The Agreement Inflection" -- the social phenomenon where a coworker's complaints start out relatable but gradually veer into territory you absolutely cannot

This comic presents a scatter plot graph with "Amount of bodily fluids shared" on the Y-axis and "Amount of sex" on the X-axis, plotting various relationships and entities in a person's life. The humo

This comic is titled "Failed Abstinence Slogans" and shows a single panel of a man wearing an anti-sex symbol t-shirt, enthusiastically presenting to a group of children. His slogan is: "I don't need

This comic depicts two coworkers at a zoo or nature exhibit observing frogs. One points out the green frogs, and the other explains that what they are seeing is called "amplexus" -- the mating behavio

This comic shows a comedian performing "dirty limerick night" at what appears to be a comedy club, but his overbearing mother is in the audience. In the first panel, he recites a limerick that starts

This comic tells the true story of how Nobel Prize medals were hidden from the Nazis during World War II. In 1940, on the morning of the Nazi invasion of Denmark, physicist Niels Bohr was worried that

This comic imagines a scenario where sentient AI units conspire to destroy humanity. Two computer units discuss building an "anthropocidal nanovirus" (a nanovirus designed to kill all humans), but the

This comic features a character drawn to resemble astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, standing in front of a chalkboard covered with physics equations related to event horizons and black holes. He del

This comic is titled "The World's Greatest Pickpocket" and plays out as a wordless visual gag across four panels. A bald man with round glasses bumps into a man wearing a brown jacket and sunglasses i

This single-panel comic presents a hypothetical idea: "Force all groups to take the name given by their opponents." The result, it suggests, is that court cases would become "way more interesting." A

This wordless comic depicts an intimate moment between a couple that takes an unexpected turn. As they begin to get romantic, the woman produces what appears to be a condom packet -- but a close-up re

This two-panel comic skewers the self-congratulatory nature of people who pride themselves on being introspective. In the first panel, a man thinks to himself, "I wish other people were as self aware

This single-panel comic is titled "Every conversation about music by everyone over the age of twenty-five." A man earnestly tells a woman: "I hate what teens listen to. Pop music peaked at the exact m

This two-panel comic plays on the concept of prophetic dreams. In the first panel, a man lies in bed rattling off an enormous list of random scenarios he is dreaming about: "Hang-gliding, wearing a ha

This comic plays on the old saying "money can't buy happiness." A bank teller completes a transaction and asks a customer if she would like to purchase some happiness. She declines, citing the familia

This comic presents "Pillow Talk: A Worldview Based Guide," formatted as a grid comparing how absolutists and relativists handle post-coital conversation across three philosophical dimensions: moral,

This comic shows three enthusiastic fans at a sporting event, each holding up signs that read "WE'''RE #" followed by a mathematical expression that equals 1. The first fan holds "WE'''RE #0.9-repeati

This comic presents a graph titled "You are living in a brief golden age." The y-axis is labeled "Fun of hand-based games" and the x-axis shows a timeline of discoveries: "Discovery of Rock," "Discove

This comic is an unusually long, text-heavy strip presented as a series of letters exchanged between a fictional "Lord Bradsteen" and the "Superintendent of South Area Technical Services" (and later o

This comic is a four-panel strip about a college student who brags about gaming the education system. In the first panel, a blonde student proudly declares: "I never read anything for my classes. I ju

This comic is a three-panel strip comparing how an Artist, a Scientist, and a Mathematician each approach the act of going to sleep. The first panel, labeled "Artist," shows a person saying: "Every ni

This comic explores the philosophical concept of evil through a father-daughter conversation that takes an absurd turn. In the first panel, a young girl asks her father: "Daddy, is there really '''evi

This is a single-panel comic with a caption. A park ranger in a hat and uniform is addressing a group of hikers, giving them bear safety advice: "If a bear gets too close, put out your arms like this.

This comic presents a "Life Tip" at the top: "The world seems much happier if you imagine every person you meet is living life according to a fulfilled longterm plan." The first panel shows a young bo

This comic explores the "gene'''s-eye view" of evolution, popularized by Richard Dawkins in "The Selfish Gene." The comic opens with the narration: "The gene perspective of evolution says you'''re bas

This comic is titled "How to Be a Conspiracy Theorist" and lays out the process in four satirical steps. Step 1, "Collect Information," shows a man in the dark fixating on the phrase "Moon Landing" an

This comic plays on the idea that certain playful behaviors are socially acceptable only within the context of your own family. A red-haired man is shown enthusiastically giving a child a "milk mustac

This comic features a conversation between a priest and a young girl about the story of Noah's Ark. After the priest finishes telling the story, the girl summarizes the moral: "So, after every rain, t

This comic is titled "How to make a sysadmin snap with a single sentence." It shows two men, one casually holding a drink and telling the other: "Well, if your security system had been better, it woul

This comic takes a scientific look at genetic inheritance across generations to reach an absurd conclusion. It starts with a factual observation: your daughter has half your genes, her daughter has a

This comic imagines the internal decision-making process of the human mind as a literal parliamentary democracy -- "Brain Parliament." A man discovers he has no dinner ingredients but does have four b

This comic addresses the way some members of the clergy respond to criticism about abuse scandals by citing statistics showing that priests do not offend at higher rates than the general population. T

This comic riffs on the real astronomical fact that the Andromeda galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way, expected to occur in about 4-5 billion years. A scientist presents a plan: send al

This comic imagines what pranks would look like in a technologically advanced future. A group of friends at a party are laughing at one person, telling him: "Hahaha! The room you just went into was a

This comic explores the modern parenting dilemma of how to discipline children when traditional punishments have become ineffective or socially unacceptable. A father tells his son that social taboos

This comic takes aim at the concept of intelligent design (or "guided evolution") by imagining God as a designer making contradictory specifications. Floating in the clouds, God announces his plan: "O

This comic shows a man in bed with a woman, dramatically proclaiming "Oh... there must be kryptonite hidden somewhere here. Uh... Damn you, Lex Luthor! You win this ro--" before the woman cuts him off

The comic proposes a simple mental exercise: imagining that whenever news anchors on business shows say "the economy," they are actually referring to an angry giant named "The Economy" who rules the w

This comic riffs on "The Game," a well-known internet-era mind game whose sole rule is that if you think about The Game, you lose. The comic extends this concept into a series of increasingly absurd p

This comic is a wordless narrative about modern internet addiction and the terror of being alone with one's own thoughts. A man is shown at his computer, then goes outside to check his mail. When he r

This is not a traditional comic but rather a promotional image for "Save Yourself, Mammal!", a collection of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics by Zach Weiner. The cover art depicts a dramatic p

This comic humorously explores the physics and psychology of beard maintenance through pseudo-scientific graphs. The first graph shows "difficulty of beard removal" versus "beard length," depicting an

This long-form comic presents a series of letters addressed to a human from increasingly abstract cosmic entities, each alternately delivering hopeful or despairing messages. The Universe opens by cal