Tattoo You

Cidu Bill on Apr 12th 2008

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Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, comic strips, comics, humor, tattoos | 13 responses so far

13 Responses to “Tattoo You”

  1. Molly Apr 12th 2008 at 12:25 am 1

    I’m guessing by the pictures he’s withdrawing from his wallet in the first panel that he meant to get his lady love’s picture tattooed on his arm, along with a banner underneath bearing her name. Instead, the tattoo lady got it wrong and tattooed a picture of the wallet and put “wallet” on the tattoo.

    Kind of a dumb, highly improbable joke.

  2. Kaitlyn Apr 12th 2008 at 01:32 am 2

    Would it be funnier if he couldn’t see it without mirrors?

  3. Jim Apr 12th 2008 at 02:51 am 3

    I don’t get it, either. I can’t tell where the joke is: did the tattoo lady get it wrong, or is the wallet his true love? The second explanation fits in with SMBC’s style of reverse gags, but it’s not funny. Or maybe I’m not working hard enough to “get” it.

  4. Jerod T. Apr 12th 2008 at 06:57 am 4

    The way I read it, he got the tattoo of the woman, she wasn’t impressed, so he went back and got it changed to his now empty wallet

  5. Powers Apr 12th 2008 at 08:48 am 5

    Tattoo lady got it wrong. Not sure how.

  6. Lihtox Apr 12th 2008 at 05:35 pm 6

    I think the fellow is clearly in love with money. Note the phrasing in the first panel “It’s time I showed my love in concrete form”: very ambiguous, as if the cartoonist doesn’t want to reveal the punchline too soon.

    It’s like Stephen Colbert getting a tattoo of himself, I suppose. (He should totally do that.)

  7. Dan Apr 12th 2008 at 10:25 pm 7

    No, he’s showing his love in concrete form, right? He usually shows his love to his girl by buying her stuff. In concrete form, this would be a tattoo of a wallet, or so the comic would have us believe. But that, apparently, wasn’t quite what the girl had in mind.

  8. bAT L. Apr 12th 2008 at 11:15 pm 8

    The last two panels seem in the same timeframe, judging from the background color. This would imply that the lady says she’s not impressed at his tattoo, which we see immediately after she says it. It would have been much more clear if the last two panels were merged into one wideshot where we see the tattoo and her comment on it. The artist’s timing tends toward the first idea.

  9. gez Apr 13th 2008 at 01:53 am 9

    what you buy with the money is tangible, the money itself is concrete. she is upset however by him showing love via his wallet and upon realizing he can never get her what she pleases, it is like death to his wallet, hence the memorial type tattoo

  10. Michael Apr 13th 2008 at 07:12 pm 10

    He’s love with his wallet, definitely. I found this pretty funny — after all, he’s much more likely to stay in love with his money than with his future ex-wife/girlfriend. Having a tatoo of an ex would suck.

  11. David Apr 14th 2008 at 09:46 am 11

    I don’t understand the comic, but it gave me a new favorite word, “Oottat”.

  12. Kurt Aug 22nd 2008 at 04:11 pm 12

    I didn’t see it as a tattoo so much as I thought it was a play on “wearing your heart on your sleeve.” Maybe I’m overshooting it.

  13. This guy I Know Aug 30th 2008 at 02:27 am 13

    I know it’s been a while between the original post and this reply, but…

    The guy went to get a tattoo to show the world that which he loves most. We see him taking photographs out of his wallet, and assume the tattoo will be of the woman in the pictures. In actuality, he is simply removing the contents of his wallet so the artist can use it as a model (he wants HIS wallet, not just any wallet).

    When he shows his tattoo to the woman in the photographs (wife, girlfriend, whatever) he’s dismayed that she’s not as enthusiastic as he is over his symbol of devotion to his one true love.

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