That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 20, 2018

After surviving El Terror in the bullring, Miguel figured smoking was the least dangerous thing he was going to this day.

He heard vaping was safer, but didn’t bother to read the instruction booklet.

Smoking caused the bulls to be even madder.

So, releasing a confused animal into an arena, having horsemen circling it and repeatedly spearing it to maximise the amount of pain and suffering it can feel until it’s running around feeling unbelievably excruciating agony as a ‘man’ with a red cape continues to torture it in absolute inhumane cruelty for as long as he possibly can until it manages to mercifully expire before a baying bloodthirsty crowd is called “sport”? Please stop this planet, I want to get off.

Henri’s last cigarette before being sent to the bullring.

They told him the smell of weed on his cape would calm the bull down.

I would think that sparking one up before facing a charging bull would lead to a very short career, although it does explain the expression “Suit of Lights”.

Virginia Slims?

After his spliff he just didn’t worry anymore

Bull fights, along with dog fights, cock fights, are all examples of the depths to which our species can reach. Oh, and political discourse as well.

Sparkin’ one up in honor of the first day of legal recreational pot sales in Massachusetts today!

His fight is scheduled for 420, obviously.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/20/420-meaning-the-true-stor_n_543854.html

If he drops his cape the bull will chase the red in his eyes.

The brains in Spain are plainly on the wane..

Got tired of tormenting then killing magnificent animals?

LSMFT.

There’s a reason the old world is called “the old world”.

“Wow man, steam coming out that bull’s nose, cool.”

I picked a bad day to give up smoking

After the Bullfight or Toreador: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassatt_Mary_Toreador_1873.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size, oil on canvas painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/cassatt_mary.html 

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/cassatt/cassatt_bio.htm 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/c/cassatt/biograph.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/mary-cassatt 

http://www.all-art.org/history480-6.html 

https://www.biography.com/people/mary-cassatt-9240820 

http://www.thefamousartists.com/mary-cassatt 

http://hoocher.com/Mary_Cassatt/Mary_Cassatt.htm 

all have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 3 works by her have been used here. 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/08/07?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there had the same artist info links).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2085 (November 19, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Bullfighting became much more popular after the toreadors started smoking pot; the bulls started winning more often.

The guy is smoking a reefer.

rarfayel tired of the slow caravan, wanted to smoke a joint just like all the Americans.

…duuude…

I’d rather see how the ancient Minoans and their horn vaulting and riding on the horns of bulls. I don’t know if they ever killed them for sport though.

Another take; similar vein…

https://i.imgur.com/dKFaLja.jpg

another take is Manet’s Dead Bullfighter – a far greater work.

Today’s tribute to Gary Larson . . .

In what sense was Cassatt a Chilean?