That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 10, 2018

Nero regretting killing his mother before Saturnalia and missing out on the presents.

WiFi is down; what will Nero do to break this boredom?

“It sucks living in my parent’s palace basement, but it’s better than getting a job.”

“How dare she tell me to move out. I’ll get my own back someday.”

The sun. It will come up. The wine. The feast. They’ll come up too. Oh why did I have to eat and drink so much again?

Binge watching “This Old Palace” for DIY tips he’ll never use.

Damn. I rubbed the hell out of that lamp but still no genie.

The guy who commissioned this portrait is like a guy who had his photo taken to show off his mullet. His kids haul it out to show their friends and have a good laugh.

“That masseuse should’ve been here three hours ago. Now I really have a crick in my neck.”

Of course Nero spent the rest of the big party moping in the hall closet. Not only had that awful Ms. Boudicca shown up wearing the exact same gown as he, but she had the audacity one-up him by having hers dyed in the blood of eleven virgins. How would he ever live down the shame?

The Remorse of the Emperor Nero after the Murder of his Mother: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RemorsodeNero.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/waterhouse_john_william.html 

http://totallyhistory.com/john-william-waterhouse/ 

http://www.all-art.org/neoclasscism/waterhouse1.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-william-waterhouse 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/w/waterhou/biograph.html 

http://www.avictorian.com/Waterhouse_John_William.html 

https://www.jwwaterhouse.net/biography/ 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/79 

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/jww/index.html 

http://hoocher.com/j_w_waterhouse/john_william_waterhouse.htm 

all have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 11 works by him have been used here (12 times, including a Classic repeat). 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/11/15?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2097 (December 9, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Look at me. I wouldn’t hurt a fly.

Sorry he didn’t make it hurt more and last longer. Such a brat!

I knew I should have stayed in a Holiday Inn last night …

i’m so lonely ,my husband says I’m fat . and he went on vacation with my physical trainer

“I coulda hadda V-8!”

“Shouldn’t have killed her. But on the bright side, I get her place.”

It finally happened! I throw an orgy and nobody shows up! :>)

He never “fiddled” while Rome burned. He was most unhappy it did burn.

Way back when, in the days of ancient Rome, / Emperor Nero played the fiddle in his home; / And he said, as he played beneath the dome, / “There’ll be a hot time in the old time tonight!”