the funnies

The other day I shared my captions for this fruit-skeleton cartoon.  Let's see what made it into the finals:

O.K.—I love that two of the three clearly assume that the woman was as alive as the two men when their life-raft adventure began...a reasonable assumption or a ludicrious one, depending on how you look at it.  I guess in a way this problem is an indictment of the cartoon itself: the woman is supposed to have not only died but also been reduced to a skeleton while the two men lived on, by...eating the fruit?*  In which case how big was that fucking hat at the beginning?  (Yes, I am picking apart the logic of a cartoon.)  But then this raises an amazing question: DID THESE MEN EAT HER??  New caption: "And now the fruit course."  (Andrea B. Hollingshead's caption is totally amazing if we imagine it as suggesting that these men started out as skeletons...but I doubt that's the idea.)

1. "Holy crap, the cats are standing on each other's shoulders like some kind of totem pole."
   
2. "Yes, I'll hold."
3. "You know what?  Maybe you'd better bring your shotgun."
4. "I bought four cats."
5. "What are you wearing?"

* Not in T.J. Tu's version.