B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for September 02, 2021

Jane’s been around the block a few times I presume.

At the least the Moms end up with something cute.

Ever heard of menstrual cramps? Any WOMAN, ever!

Mine was half the size of a grain of rice. And Demerol was my best friend.

Me Willie aches thinking about it.

Very true.

I wonder why this is such a big subject matter here. I wonder if the artist is somehow working off experience.

A mother passes something that is a “little bit” larger than that in becoming a mother.

We were all once even much tinier than that.

We have all caused some pain sometime to someone.

I’ve had a few middle ear infections in the past. They always got so bad that the pressure would build up until something gave…which was the eardrum when it popped. Excruciatingly painful, trust me. Had a woman acquaintance that had them like that also, she told me to her at least the pain was comparable to childbirth.

At least he passed it. I lost all function in my right kidney due to it being full of large stones and won’t pass them. Had the surgeon go in twice to try and remove them. And they just came back. Did a test last year and the kidney was found to be 2% functional.

Kidney stone? Looks more like a kidney pebble…

Then why is it that women say, “I think I’ll have another baby?” You never hear men say, “I think I’ll have another kidney stone.”

Labor pains, menstrual cramps, PMS, menopause. … Yeah, I’m glad I’m a guy.

“Every mother in history”? What mothers? The only women are Jane and Grace, and they can’t be the guys’ mothers since they’re the same age as them, so who are we talking about?

A natural conclusion to the arc. Hadda happen.

There, but for the grace of God, go I. I wonder if there is a pill or a shot or something that prevents kidney stones?

Childbirth can’t be that painful. Women do it over and over. Now me, if I did something that hurt that bad I certainly wouldn’t turn around and do it again.

Jane …big woman on campus now!

looks like a bed pan,,, stone age style

Amazing that to be 2021, there is nothing they can really do about a kidney stone except pain relief and wait… and wait… and wait….

I knew of somebody it got stuck at the end of the pipeline and they pulled it out!!

They must have been birthing some tiny painful children, then. :) (A baby’s head is no small thing.)

Yep, pesky things, they are.

Surely this is a reference to stepping on a LEGO brick, right?

So…no walls or curtain around the urinal?

Is Jane missing a left arm in panel #1?

Jane is right.

I’m doing my part to keep the tradition alive!