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snowman-2

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snowman-2
Votey panel for snowman-2
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Explanation

This comic imagines what the Christmas season would be like from the perspective of a sentient snowman. When a human companion cheerfully asks Frosty if he loves the Christmas season, the snowman responds with existential horror: he is made of snow, so the snow falling from the sky is essentially his own flesh raining down.

The dark humor escalates as the snowman observes that children are tearing apart snowmen (beings made of the same substance as him) and reassembling them, which he finds deeply disturbing rather than charming. Kids throwing snowballs at each other amounts to flinging pieces of his body around. The final panel delivers the darkest punchline -- the snowman says he's "looking forward to summer," which for a snowman means melting and dying. The joke is that his existence is so horrifying that death by melting is preferable. The comic takes the cheerful Frosty the Snowman concept and follows its implications to their logical, nightmarish conclusion.

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