That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 27, 2023

/// Here’s Pandora, whose infamous box

had been stuffed full of pain, plagues and pox.

Told, “Don’t open the lid!”

she admits that she did:

“It’s entrapment— Zeus should have used locks!”

My Original post in 2014:

What the hell did Van Gogh send me?

Look, look! The hormone treatment pills work!

I don’t recall what’s in the box – it’s either hope, peace on earth, or Tucker Calrson’s soul

I thought coconut bras we more round than square, no?

“How thoughtful, you brought me the head of the spider that terrorized me in the shower.”

The prom is tonight and I have nothing to wear. If only I had some hope.

Being a bricklayer she always pt one handy.

“Honey, honey… Look ecstatic, ecstatic! We want ecstatic… That’s not ecstatic.”

These pasties Will never do. Do you have something larger than the size of a half dollar?

This year, some strange candy. Next year, a grandchild.

“Mom always said I was a little Hellraiser, and that I should never touch this puzzle box. So who are you, sea urchin boy? Bet even MyPillows don’t last you long,”

When did that hole get in my diaphragm….

These are my kids’ marbles, not my Ben-Wa………

Honey, I’m flattered and surprised you got the pillowcase to fit this box, but I wear a single-sized sheet. OR are you telling me to lose weight?!

“Brick is what year anniversary again?”

“For his birthday I bought him a really nice watch … and what’s he give me for mine? A lousy box of bath soap!”

The caption reminds me of a joke about a mix-up of gloves and panties (not going to print it here but just Google “gloves and panties joke”).

“Also, I don’t remember my birth control pills being blue.”

French Alka-Seltzer ads hit a little different.

“My boob fits in this box. I must be a size C.”

“I can’t remember…what was I supposed to do?”

“This is the Gibson Girl auditions, right?”

“A box of Trojans? How thoughtful!”

It’s a treasure chest, even though it’s a bit small. More than a mouthful is a waste, anyway.

One of 11’s scenes cut from Stranger Things by the censors.

What kind of pills do you send someone for their birthday?

Pandora: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Mythological paintings by William-Adolphe Bouguereau" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string 3,200, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has the strip coloration image.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1003 (4/8/14) (April 26, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 21 works by this artist used here (23 times total, including this Throwback Thursday, and a prior repeat), the April 28, 2014, strip being its first use. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative. The October 5, 2021, strip is the last non-repeat by this artist.

A very confused Winona Ryder. :)

I told you they were worth their weight in gold.

These are blue?? Oops…

Wanna look at my box?

Beatrice, striping got a 1/2 gold bar, think what she could make with full monty.

You bought me studs for all my piercings? But I don’t have any piercings!

… not yet anyway …

Maybe I should use something that won’t leak the breast milk?

Or would you rather trade for What’s In This Box?