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three-3

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three-3
Votey panel for three-3
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Explanation

This is a multi-panel comic structured as a letter addressed to "Dear Evolution." It features various animals complaining about the messiness and absurdity of sexual reproduction.

The first panel shows what appears to be a sloth writing, "Dear Evolution, how come sexual reproduction is almost always bribery? May I not allure a more complex, sensitive mate?" with a "Hold" and "Mold" label suggesting primitive mating displays. The next panels introduce different animals making similar complaints about the indignity of their reproductive strategies. One calls it "the dancy damn orangutan circle of LIIIIFE" mocking The Lion King while depicting ungainly mating dances. Unicorns appear, and the final panels show a figure (possibly Noah) saying, "Now it might've been the unicorn-pooping that got God most riled up," followed by "I can forgive him for drowning the world, but never for this."

The comic humorously catalogs the bizarre, undignified, and often disgusting ways that animals reproduce, framing it as a complaint letter to evolution. The Noah reference at the end ties the absurdity of animal reproduction to the biblical flood narrative -- suggesting that God's real motivation for the Great Flood was not human sin but disgust at the mating rituals He (or evolution) had created. The joke layers evolutionary biology humor with biblical satire, a frequent SMBC combination.

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