Comic #5951: sirens

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Here is the transcription of the comic:

Panel 1
Character 1: "I don't get why Odysseus was tempted by the sirens. You pass by an island of sexy monster girls, why do you have to be bound to a mast to just say 'Don't sleep with the sexy monster girls'?"

Panel 2
Character 2: "That's what everyone thinks happens in that scene. The actual Odyssey doesn’t mention them being especially attractive."

Panel 3
Character 2: "There’s also no sex. What they offer Odysseus is to talk to him and tell him every detail about the war a bunch of his friends recently died in, and then to give him the lay of the future."

Panel 4
Character 2: "That is, you’ve got an island of girls with pretty voices who will tell you the meaning and truth of the most important event of your life and then give you the information you need to live the rest of it well."

Panel 5
Character 1: "Where?! Where?! Take me to them!"

Panel 6
Character 2: "To be clear, 'About them is a great heap of bones of mouldering men and round the bones the skin is shriveling.'"

Panel 7
Character 1: "I can work with that!"

This comic is a humorous take on the story of Odysseus and the sirens, incorporating both modern dialogue and classical references.