2011-07-26
Explanation
This comic features a daughter delivering an elaborate threat to her father. She announces that since she has "so much time on her hands," she has decided to become sexually active, starting with a boy who will come over for dinner often and whose political views are "so wildly naive, you'll want to strangle him with his own Che Guevara t-shirt."
The caption below reveals: "Sally convinced me to buy her that new video game." The joke is that the daughter is not actually planning to do any of this -- she is strategically describing a father's worst nightmare (his daughter dating an insufferable, politically clueless young activist) as a form of blackmail. The implied deal is that if dad buys her the video game, she will have something to occupy her time instead. It is a humorous take on parent-child negotiation dynamics, where the child has figured out exactly which buttons to push to get what she wants.