# Help with a cartoon panel **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 26, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-cartoon-panel/833069 "2019-04-26T05:03:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-cartoon-panel/833069/1 "2019-04-26T05:03:43Z")
I just don’t get it. Anyone? [![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/82a9487d-2850-4ae1-a68c-204e819f5a2a.png) ](https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/82a9487d-2850-4ae1-a68c-204e819f5a2a.png) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-cartoon-panel/833069/2 "2019-04-26T05:10:53Z")
Is she exposing herself in the penultimate panel? If you can find the original, I’m sure it’d be better quality (higher resolution, less Jpegging) and you could see. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-cartoon-panel/833069/3 "2019-04-26T05:16:09Z")
> **[How a sexy comic character's cry for help became a dank meme](https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/help-meme-esther-verkest-comic/)** > > She's stranded on an island. What message will convince people to help her? > [@](#): > > Esther Verkest, the lewd, manipulative redhead who stars in comics by Flemish cartoonist Kim Duchateau, found herself in quite a predicament recently. In a strip that appeared on the Esther Verkest Facebook page in early August, the character found herself stranded on a desert island, forced to signal passing planes with a “HELP” sign made out of rocks. And then, she became a meme. > > In the comic, Esther’s “HELP” signal failed to attract attention, but when she changed the message to “SLUT,” pilots were literally crashing their aircraft to get to her. A crude joke, to be sure, but also an ideal meme template. And there in the OP you got the template sent to you, a bad one as it truncates the first panels. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-cartoon-panel/833069/4 "2019-04-26T05:18:31Z")
Ninja’ed so nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-cartoon-panel/833069/5 "2019-04-26T13:42:15Z")
It’s been bowdlerized. Taking out the SLUT renders it kind of pointless. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-cartoon-panel/833069/6 "2019-04-26T13:58:23Z")
The point, as explained in link provided, is that the original is used as a template to make fun of a variety of specific groups, substituting the “SLUT” with other "fill in the blank"s aimed at, pointed at, specific groups. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-cartoon-panel/833069/7 "2019-04-26T14:04:44Z")
OK thanks. The one I posted was the only version I had. Without the “slut” it was a head scratcher. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-cartoon-panel/833069/8 "2019-04-26T15:18:27Z")
I thought no one was interested in rescue, but a treasure map “X” got their attention. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-cartoon-panel/833069/9 "2019-04-26T15:33:14Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I thought no one was interested in rescue, but a treasure map “X” got their attention. I thought that too, until I realized the X was the airliner’s shadow. :smack: