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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are they swingers? I think I'm too awetistic to get the joke here.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, you got the joke right

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago

If course the next day the kids had to kill their parents: "Mom never smiled like that, the doppelgangers must have won!"

[–] YerLam@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Didn't realise we were looking at the back of her head and thought she was actually a doppleganger with a weird blobby eye and mouth.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

I saw a woman with voluminous hair with a head that is a potato

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I thought it was a paper bag to disguise whether she was.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah same. I was confused as all hell

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

There's a nice short story I once read about how when people reach their 70s, they develop psychic powers and join a brotherhood/sisterhood of psychics consisting of every elderly person on the planet keeping the horrors of space at bay.

These horrors manifest as nightmares targeted at children, but the elderly fight the mental battles for them every night. The battles are hours long, mentally taxing, and the wounds manifest the next day as a slow crawl towards Dementia.

Anyway, this comic reminded me of that before I undestood the sex stuff

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What was the name of the story?

[–] farfalla@jlai.lu 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I want to know too !

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I read a similar story about how a child (of parents who were fighting a lot) had a teddy bear who came alive at night to "fight the nightmare monsters" which were, somehow, real. That poor teddy looked worse for wear as time went on, it was a real tear jerker. (I'm totally not tearing up just thinking about it, you're cutting onions ya bastard)

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 4 points 2 days ago

"You'll know who the monsters are because they are the ones that lose" is a fun implication (before I got the actual joke)

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 90 points 3 days ago

Plot twist, they were actually playing Warhammer 40k with the neighbors.

[–] baines@piefed.social 78 points 3 days ago (2 children)

is the joke horror or swinger?

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 147 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not sure what you mean, but okay.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

Calm down Takei

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The mouseover text on the original will also help answer your question.

[–] nailingjello@lemmy.zip 52 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

BUT THEY ARE LOSING.

Still don't know why they kept asking their ghostly duplicates whether they liked that over and over.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, Bat Individual!