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Explanation

This comic shows two people standing outside a truck stop at night. One person says to the other: "Look, everyone figured it out a long time ago. You don't eat, you're scared of garlic fries, you're out at night when nothing is open, and you're dating that goth girl from Walmart with the black sweatpants." The caption reads: "It's hard being a vampire in a small town."

The humor comes from deflating the gothic mystique of vampires by placing one in a mundane, small-town setting. Instead of being a terrifying creature of the night, this vampire is just a recognizable local weirdo whose "secret" is obvious to everyone. The clues that give him away are amusingly banal -- not eating, avoiding garlic (in the unglamorous form of garlic fries), being out late at a truck stop, and dating a "goth girl from Walmart." The comic takes the vampire trope and strips away all the romanticism, replacing Transylvanian castles and aristocratic mystique with truck stops, Walmart, and sweatpants. It's a joke about how small towns make anonymity impossible and how even a supernatural creature can't escape the banality of rural American life.

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