this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
44 points (87.9% liked)

Comic Strips

22794 readers
2474 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 7 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Why's he disappointed? I'd be fucking siked

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

My ex was one of those. Believe me, it's not all it's cracked up to be. But the sex was great!

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 51 minutes ago

The crazy ones always are

[–] saturn57@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Legality is not equivalent to morality. Someone can be in a country illegally even though they should be allowed to be there.

[–] skrlet13@feddit.cl 4 points 1 hour ago

Yep, that quote wants to align morals and laws, allowing foreign people in a legal way too.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website -1 points 42 minutes ago (1 children)

Fucking men thinking that their ~~dick~~ kiss are ground chattering

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago)

I think that kisses having magic powers is just something of a general theme for stories at the time and place that the Brothers Grimm were collecting folklore, not something gender-specific.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty

"Sleeping Beauty" (French: La Belle au bois dormant, or The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood;[1][a] German: Dornröschen, or Little Briar Rose, Italian: La Bella Addormentata), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, is a fairy tale about a princess cursed by an evil fairy to sleep for a hundred years before being awakened by a handsome prince.

The version collected and printed by the Brothers Grimm was one orally transmitted from the Perrault version,[10] while including its own attributes like the thorny rose hedge and the curse.[11]

There, it's a prince's kiss that breaks a curse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frog_Prince

"The Frog Prince; or, Iron Henry" (German: Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich, literally "The Frog King or the Iron Henry") is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 1).

There, it's a princess' kiss.

EDIT: Though I suppose one could take issue with the disproportionate-to-population level of royalty involved in doing all this kissing.

EDIT2: You know, oddly enough, I'm racking my brain and I can't think of present-day legends and stories where kisses do magical or supernatural things. There are some characters I can think of where a kiss might have some incidental effect


I'm pretty sure that I vaguely remember there being some Marvel Comics X-Men story where Rogue kisses her boyfriend and puts him in a coma, as an incidental effect of skin-on-skin contact. There are some kiss-adjacent things, like vampire stories where a kiss segues into a bite on the neck. But magical kissing seems to be out-of-vogue today.