Comments on: Tattoo You

By: This guy I Know

This guy I Know — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:27:50 +0000

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.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:11:15 +0000

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.

By: David

David — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:46:33 +0000

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

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:12:16 +0000

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.

By: gez

gez — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:53:46 +0000

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

By: bAT L.

bAT L. — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:15:25 +0000

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.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:25:38 +0000

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.

By: Lihtox

Lihtox — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:35:20 +0000

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.)

By: Powers

Powers — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:48:10 +0000

Tattoo lady got it wrong. Not sure how.

By: Jerod T.

Jerod T. — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:57:30 +0000

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