Well, I don’t know if this means anything to you, or even this strip. But somewhere I heard that receiving a black rose meant that you were on the mafia’s list… or something like that.

I can’t remember the details.

@ dzamie:
No, whats happeneing is the old lady says “Atleast you haven’t experienced the pursecution of being an exotic pet owner.” The point of the last comic shows, what I assume is a persecution in burma which the author is supporting their freedom. It’s essentially showing how modern people see persecution while not realizing there are people like the man up top who face death for doing somthing we think is a birth right!

I don’t really see a connection. The animal that the lady has looks like an Ocelot or a similar small jungle cat, but Ocelots to my knowledge are not found in Burma.

@ Novil:
I recently went to Mae Sot, Thailand (roughly 8 hours in a charter van from the Bangkok airport – but they have public night buses), which is ltierally a wade across from Burma, to do volunteer work. There’re plenty of NGOs there who work with Burmese migrants to help teach them life skills for both personal and community improvement for when they return to Burma. There’s also a political prisoner’s support org there with a museum. Perhaps you could go there and interview people (but obscure their faces and put the sound through a voice-scrambler) who are both legal and illegal migrants from burma. I worked with Burmese student/workers there on a playground building project and talked a lot with them. They’re a very spirited and optimistic people who strive for the better all the time. My best burmese friend there gave this quote when I asked him what his dream was. He said, “I want to be the richest man in Asia, so that I can show them [the youth] that it is possible.”
anyway, email me (it should be included in the comment section) if you want info on how to volunteer. =]

Fantastic strip!

I’m a new reader just starting my way through the archives, and I love what I see! I usually don’t comment, but this one was so excellent I just had to say something. I really like that this comic doesn’t always feel the need to try to make everything “ha-ha” funny-sometimes things should just be left as they are.

*dives back in to the archives*