Monkeyfoot Crotch

“You should be glad it's over.”

“Glad that someone finally activated the device? Yeah, that dragged out long enough.”

“Glad that the war is finally over.”

“Oh yeah, the war. It wasn't much of a war, was it?”

“Well, it didn't quite escalate like they thought it would, so yeah. Still, it could have been pretty bad.”

“Or it was a doomed narrative imposed on an unrelated sequence of drawings.”

“What?”

“Nothing. And how are the monkeys helping?”

“Transdimensional monkeys.”

“Right. How did they stop the war?”

“Well, you know, the whole planet flooded with monkeys from an alternate dimension, that's going to stop a war, isn't it?”

“Is it?”

“Sure. Especially since monkeys are the natural enemies of both cowboys and pirates.”

“Ugh, why did I ask. Say, are those new pants?”

“Yes, why?”

“No reason.”