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OMG IT'S VALENTINE'S DAY?!! (+ bonus panel!) (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I absolutely adore the fact that this is the rose seller from the other comic

[–] jballs 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gotta love that continuity!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Or they did it because it is easier to copy & paste than to create a whole new character, lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Who hurt you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I was going to say the same... But wasn't sure if the image was the same or different angle or similar.

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT 8 points 7 months ago

You know your friends appreciate this too.

Anyway enjoy funny comic

[–] achance4cheese 8 points 7 months ago

Spider in flowers in panel three, also spelled in the flowers’ swirls! Haha

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Bank sale
Oops, I mean
Buy gf

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Hehe capitalism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

At the first sight at the "bonus panel" I though I've seen the hero wearing the Apple Vision Pro. Wouldn't it be funnier If he bought all those things for a virtual GF?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's a seasonal premium, but those too are for sale on an hourly basis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

And you don't even need to buy the flowers or chocolates. I'm sure it would be appreciated, but it's not required.

[+] [email protected] -62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

I generally like your work, and the punchline without the bonus panel works well (and I agree that seeing the rose guy again is a nice touch), but framing women as a commodity for men to purchase (E: in the bonus panel) is unnecessary misogynistic bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This could have been the same comic but with a woman. It wouldn't change a thing, you're interpreting things into it yourself.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The joke in the bonus panel only works because women very clearly are not a commodity for sale unlike the other items on the list. That's what makes the bonus panel an absurd twist, that there would be such a thing as a "girlfriend store".

As in, if the final item on the list was "get jewelry", and the then the bonus panel showed a closed jewelry store, there'd be nothing funny about that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, it doesn't make sense

What jewelry store would be closed on valentine though

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

If perhaps it was a brothel or something seedy I'd feel like you. I just saw the girlfriend store and thought the joke only works because it doesn't exist and was a silly concept. Especially given that Valentine's Day would be for your partner and not that you'd need to purchase one like you do the other items.

I could be wrong, but that's what I got from it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Who let Tumblr federate in here?