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A cartoon illustration of the grim reaper watering flowers in his front yard while the next door neighbor looks over worriedly as he picks up his morning newspaper. The caption underneath reads "He had never not seen the new neighbor wearing his costume and it was beginning to unsettle Davis."

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

The text is from the perspective of death

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

DO YOU LIKE MY ROSES? I DON’T THINK ANYONE ELSE MAKES THEM AS BLACK AS I DO.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I thought the death was going to be the death of print media newspapers, until I read the caption.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Has a bit of a grim fandango feel to it. Also that gives it an extra later of creep as 'sprouting' someone (making flowers grow on them) is the equivalent of killing someone in that universe