Angriest Rice Cooker Director’s Cut 17–On Love

Nietzsche was a sickly man who quite possibly had syphilis. In the original draft of this comic, that was a central component of the set-up. But I just couldn’t get it to fit in without totally torpedoing the rhythm of the strip. I thought of having the punchline be “Or an unusual take on his syphilis”, but so far as I know, there’s no real definitive evidence that he actually did have syphilis, so I couldn’t just take it for granted that the audience would know that he did and make sense of it. Besides, though it was the idea that he had syphilis that made the connection for me between this quote and that more literal love/madness connection, it isn’t really necessary for the joke. Although I think the knowledge that he may have had the disease does color this one nicely.

Also, we’re getting into the period when the spelling errors become a lot more common in these comics, so this one got a little touch-up.

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