sanctum
Explanation
This single-panel comic shows a scene at what appears to be a religious temple or church, where indigenous South American figures (wearing traditional headdresses and face paint) are raiding the building. Speech bubbles show people shouting "Reverte! Reverte!" (Latin for "return!" or "give it back!") and "Illud est proprium sanctum!" (Latin roughly meaning "That is our sacred property!").
The caption reads: "There should be a reverse Indiana Jones film where a South American tribe sneaks into the Vatican to steal holy relics."
The joke inverts the premise of the Indiana Jones franchise, where a Western archaeologist ventures into foreign temples and tombs to retrieve artifacts for museums. The comic points out the inherent colonial double standard: when Indiana Jones takes sacred objects from indigenous peoples' temples, it's framed as heroic adventure and preservation, but if indigenous people did the exact same thing to Western religious institutions, it would be framed as theft or sacrilege.
The use of Latin for the panicked exclamations is a clever touch -- it mirrors how indigenous languages are used in adventure films when locals protest the removal of their sacred objects, but here it's the Vatican clergy who are helplessly shouting in their ceremonial language as their relics are taken. The comic is a pointed critique of cultural imperialism and the way Western museums and institutions have historically justified the acquisition of artifacts from colonized peoples while treating their own religious objects as inviolably sacred. It's both a funny premise for a movie and a sharp piece of postcolonial commentary.