875: 2009 Called
| 2009 Called |
 Title text: 2017 called, but I couldn't understand what they were saying over all the screams. |
Explanation
The comic deconstructs a common idiom - "X called, they want their Y back." Usually, X is a year (like 2009 here), and Y is something very popular in that year that is seen as ridiculous in the present day.
Here, Megan notices a Three-Wolf Moon t-shirt that Cueball apparently owns. The Three-Wolf Moon is a shirt of three wolves howling at the moon that reached meme status when several people posted ironic reviews giving it supernatural powers on [ Amazon] around late 2008.
Megan says the idiom, but before she can finish, Cueball takes it literally (that is, that the year 2009 actually called her) and admonishes for not telling them about the February 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The comic was posted shortly after the latter, so it is reasonable to assume that it was created as a response to the disaster.
The title text continues the idiom, implying the end of humanity and/or the world will come about in 2017.Template:Comicdiscussion
