Rubes by Leigh Rubin for December 20, 2023

The pink one is microbe-managing Becky and Tom.

Bow-chiggy-bow-WOW!!!

Have they no shame??!!

That’s funny!

“Public display of infection”.

And spreading the cornyvirus eh.

Their names are actually Germ and Bacteria, Becky and Tommy are code…

Oh! how cute (NOT)

Petri dish placed under a mistletoe?

so that’s Becky’s ame BOO

Comic Porn.

Quick! Grab a camera. This will go viral!

They must be members of that Family Friendly group, Moms for Liberty! Or as I call them, Hitler’s Little Homemakers.

Jealous?

Covid 24 on the make.

c’mon, guys! get a room!!

In front of the kids???

Just wait, They’ll wind up splitting.

They will likely bring each other to organism.

If it’s a girl, she should be named mitochondria.

They’re exchanging it? Why not just re-gift it?

(Especially since the word “gift” means “poison” in several European languages.)

It’s actually accurate. Bacteria do often share DNA snippets with one another. (Bacteria are not eukaryotes which have a nucleus protecting the DNA – the bacterial DNA is in the cytoplasm generally as a loop). This is how bacteria end up being antibiotic resistant, for example.

Rated X and Y.