2013-04-11
Explanation
This comic is titled "Watching Alien After Pregnancy." It shows a couple sitting on a couch watching the classic 1979 sci-fi horror film "Alien." The man is visibly disturbed, saying "Oh God!" while the woman (who has apparently been through pregnancy and childbirth) is calmly eating popcorn and says dismissively, "Pfft... They only come out through your chest?"
The joke is that the iconic chestburster scene in "Alien" -- where an alien creature violently erupts from a persons torso -- is one of the most horrifying moments in cinema history. However, a woman who has experienced childbirth finds the scene unimpressive by comparison, since actual labor and delivery can be an incredibly intense and painful ordeal involving a much larger creature emerging from an even more sensitive area of the body. The humor comes from her nonchalant attitude toward something that terrifies everyone else, because her frame of reference for "things bursting out of your body" has been permanently recalibrated by motherhood.
The votey panel shows the woman saying "No, we arent. No need to send emails!" which suggests that after seeing the movie, the man (or someone) wanted to send concerned emails -- perhaps to warn people, or perhaps the woman is dismissing the idea that the movie warrants any further discussion or alarm, reinforcing her unfazed attitude.