Eden
Explanation
This comic reimagines the Garden of Eden story, focusing on the lesser-known forbidden plants.
God confronts Adam and Eve: "Adam and Eve! Are you eating from the Tree of Knowledge?" They sheepishly respond: "Uh... ooo boy. Uh." God is clearly upset, and notes that at least humanity got knowledge before being expelled.
But then God asks a follow-up question: "Say, did you eat from any other forbidden plants?" Both Adam and Eve admit: "Yeah." "A few?" "Just a few."
The final panels reveal what these other forbidden plants were: "Garlic of Jealousy," "Corn of Just Kind of Being Awful for No Reason," and "Vine of Malice."
The joke is a creative expansion of the Genesis story. In the Bible, eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was the original sin that gave humanity awareness but also suffering. This comic suggests that Adam and Eve didn't just eat from one forbidden tree -- they went on a buffet tour of forbidden plants, each one bestowing a different unpleasant human trait. The humor comes from the specificity and mundanity of these traits. Jealousy and malice are recognizable human flaws, but "just kind of being awful for no reason" is the funniest because it captures the inexplicable, motiveless unpleasantness that people sometimes display.
The comic offers a tongue-in-cheek theological explanation for why humans are flawed in so many different ways -- it wasn't just one sin, it was a whole produce section of sins.