mad
Explanation
In this comic, a daughter asks her mother how she stays so calm. The mother explains that whenever she gets mad, instead of acting out, she plants a tree. She has been doing this for 30 years. In the third panel, we see the result: the mother walks through an enormous, dense forest, proudly declaring she is the "Princess of the Forest of Hatred."
The joke escalates in the final panel. The daughter says, "Wow, so when Dad ran away with your friend--" and the mother, standing next to a lake, interjects: "Did you know I dug this enchanted lake with a SHOVEL?"
The humor comes from the inversion of a wholesome anger-management cliché. Planting trees when angry sounds like a serene, therapeutic practice, and for a moment the comic plays it straight. But the sheer scale of the forest reveals just how constantly and intensely angry the mother has been for three decades. The label "Forest of Hatred" makes the subtext explicit: this is not a peaceful garden, it is a monument to sustained fury.
The final panel escalates further by revealing that the father's infidelity prompted not just tree-planting but the manual excavation of an entire lake -- an act of rage so extreme it reshaped the landscape. The word "enchanted" is a darkly funny touch, as if the sheer intensity of her anger imbued the lake with magical properties. The comic satirizes the idea that channeling anger into productivity makes it healthy; the mother has been productive, yes, but she is clearly still seething.