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So funny it's sad (Seattlepi.com)
Oh, the wan, sickly-sweet sentiment that only a perfect comics panel can bring! Usually, this sort of stuff is found only in "Ziggy" or a really good strip from the best years of "Peanuts." But today we find it in, of all places, "The Better Half," which might also be called "The Lockhorns on Prozac and With A Few More Dollars In Their Bank Account."
In today's panel, the short nebbishy husband, whose name I've never really been able to determine, tells his gangly Olive Oyl-like wife that his entire life has been a wash-out and he wishes he could do it all over again. Of course, he can't, which is why the strip has that certain oh! to it - a little tug on the heartstrings that only a cartoon character serving as a proxy for our own fears and ennui can generate.
Frankly, if I were the wife I'd pound the living bejeezus out of him. Not only has he likely awakened her in the dead of night, but he's not-so-subtly telling her a) he's desperately unhappy and b) he'd rather start over and have a new life because the one he's made with her is slowly pulling every ounce of energy and strength from his near-lifeless human husk. Not such a nice sentiment to be expressing to your spouse in bed, but if she's truly "the better half," she'll ignore his midnight whining and go back to bed, taking revenge in the thought that he has to go out tomorrow and slog through an unforgiving world yet again, returning one more degree sadder than he was the day before.
Oof! Even Ziggy got to smile once in a very blue moon.
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