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Explanation
In this comic, a couple is planning their wedding. One partner says: "Wait, wait, at your own wedding you can put anything for the dress code?" The other responds enthusiastically: "I guess so, honey, why?" The next panel reveals the dress code card reads: "Dress code: formal apocalyptic."
In the final panel (labeled "LATER"), the wedding is shown with guests dressed in elaborate post-apocalyptic formal wear -- shoulder spikes, armor, and Mad Max-style costumes. Someone protests: "C'mon... you can't wear battle shoulder-spikes! The bride is going to be pissed!"
The humor comes from the absurd specificity of the invented dress code "formal apocalyptic" -- a mashup of black-tie formality and post-apocalyptic wasteland fashion. The joke plays on the real-world convention of wedding dress codes (black tie, cocktail, casual) by inventing one that is simultaneously formal and chaotic. The final panel delivers the visual payoff, and the complaint about shoulder-spikes being inappropriate mirrors real wedding etiquette concerns (like not wearing white), grounding the absurdity in recognizable social dynamics.