Gap

Cidu Bill on Jan 31st 2009

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Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Days of Thunder, comic strips, comics, humor | 10 responses so far

10 Responses to “Gap”

  1. Frank Jan 31st 2009 at 12:32 am 1

    Don’t let them “generate”!

  2. Djagir Jan 31st 2009 at 12:44 am 2

    Okay, going off the name of the company (”In Utero Aesthetics, Inc.”), it sounds like the couple recognizes that they’re…well, not particularly attractive (note her buck teeth and chin whiskers, and his baldness, sagging jowls, and coke-bottle glasses). The implication is that they would prefer that their child not be cursed with their looks, and they’d rather have genetic manipulation done (note also the DNA spiral on the sign) to make their offspring more attractive. The doctor (specialist, whatever) is warning them that the gulf between one generation and the next–the generation gap–simply gets worse if the child is also more attractive than its parents, as well. (”You’re just to old to get it. And you were never popular anyway!”)

  3. Lihtox Jan 31st 2009 at 12:44 am 3

    The place is called “In Utero Aesthetics Inc”; they presumably use genetic engineering to make your offspring more attractive. The customers appear to be rather unattractive (balding, buckteeth, etc). The doctor is warning them that not only will they have trouble relating to their children because they are of a different generation, but they will also have trouble relating to them because they will be much more attractive than their parents.

    Rather subtle, but it is Robert Lovely.

  4. Lihtox Jan 31st 2009 at 12:45 am 4

    Ooh, seconds behind Djagir!

  5. Elyrest Jan 31st 2009 at 12:50 am 5

    I’m guessing that because the couple is at “In Utero Aesthetics, Inc.” that they are trying to have an attractive child. From the looks of them from behind - buck teeth, slack jaw, hairy ears, thick glasses and a chin hairs on the lady - I’m supposing that these two would naturally have a pretty homely child. So if they use this company to have an attractive one they are going to have a gap in age and in looks. That’s gonna be one ugly bomb that’s gonna hit in a few years.

  6. Elyrest Jan 31st 2009 at 12:53 am 6

    Damn, Djagir and Lihtox must have been posting as I was typing!

  7. Cidu Bill Jan 31st 2009 at 12:57 am 7

    Which brings to mind… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEPC6BGWjMI

  8. Elliott Jan 31st 2009 at 09:26 am 8

    Throw them both back into the gene pool.

  9. BlueRaja Jan 31st 2009 at 02:59 pm 9

    Funny, that didn’t come to my mind whatsoever

  10. assdad Feb 2nd 2009 at 12:40 am 10

    They remind me of Harvey Pekar’s portraits of his self and wife in in the great comic and movie American Splendor. I think Lovely considers the Pekars fucking ugly.

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