hold-up
Explanation
This comic depicts a classic fantasy scenario: a hero has slain a dragon and asks for the princess's hand in marriage. But the princess says "hold up" and starts questioning the logic. The dragon was "maybe 40 tons of meat" and could fly, so being landed nearby is "exactly the usual right to kill people" -- i.e., it is just territorial violence. She points out she would have "married a big-assed, gold-plated, brass-plated dragon" instead. But after this logical objection, the final panel has her immediately agree to marry the knight anyway, because "being landed" (owning land/property) is apparently enough.
The humor works as a feminist deconstruction of the fairy-tale trope that quickly undercuts itself. The princess initially challenges the entire premise of dragon-slaying-for-marriage -- pointing out the dragon was essentially just a large animal killed for being nearby, and that the knight's "right" to her hand is based on violence, not merit. But the punchline subverts this deconstruction: she drops all objections the moment she realizes the knight owns land, suggesting that medieval marriage was always about property and economics rather than romance or heroism. It satirizes both the fairy-tale genre and the pragmatic reality underlying it.