Vacation

Let's Make Sandwiches

October 2006

This installment turned out to be a bit controversial. After two weeks in a row of comics involving explosions, we decided to give explosions a rest, but every idea we had ended with an explosion. So we ended up with this. What we were going for was to personify inanimate objects and equate their relationship to one of predator and prey. Apparently the best we could come up with was a pencil hunted by a pencil sharpener. Unfortunately, setting it in Africa and having one character forcefully penetrate another from behind led to it being misinterpreted as a rape, and the whole comic further misinterpreted as being about the rampant AIDS crisis in Africa.