true-love-2
Explanation
The Joke
A couple is having a conversation. One asks, "Do you think we're in love or just infatuated with each other?" The other responds: "I don't think it could be infatuation because the bottom of your shirt is sticking out through your pants zipper and you have a piece of fish stuck in your front teeth." In the next panel, the first person says "Then... then this is true love," and the other replies "Please give me time to close my eyes before we kiss."
The comic offers a wonderfully unromantic definition of true love. Infatuation is blind -- it makes you overlook flaws and see your partner as perfect. If your partner can clearly see all your embarrassing physical shortcomings (shirt sticking out of your fly, food in your teeth) and still wants to be with you, that must be something deeper and more durable than mere infatuation. It must be love.
The Humor
The joke subverts the typical romantic conversation about "is this love or infatuation?" by providing a hilariously practical litmus test. Instead of poetry or grand gestures, the proof of love here is that your partner has catalogued your most unflattering details and has not fled. The final request -- "Please give me time to close my eyes before we kiss" -- is the perfect capstone: it confirms the love is real, but also confirms that looking at the fish-teeth situation is genuinely unpleasant. The hovertext ("And yet, Kelly says I'm not romantic") suggests this comic may be drawn from Zach Weinersmith's personal experience, presented as evidence to his wife that his particular brand of realism is, in fact, deeply romantic.