MythTickle by Justin Thompson for August 26, 2024

Perfect.

If it wasn´t Cupid, it must have been Eros.

Yup, love is blind…..

Love it!

That doesn’t reflect well on you.

’Egos where men should not venture.

Somebody go check on Echo.

I said this at least once before, but I find it hysterical that the character who’s speaking French – d’Artagnan, I presume – asks Narcissus to speak English.

By the way, Narcissus describes himself as “most happily in love,” but in the first panel, that’s a decidedly melancholy look on his face….

Look not in my eyes, for fear

They mirror true the sight I see,

And there you find your face too clear

And love it and be lost like me.

One the long nights through must lie

Spent in star-defeated sighs,

But why should you as well as I

Perish? gaze not in my eyes.

A Grecian lad, as I hear tell,

One that many loved in vain,

Looked into a forest well

And never looked away again.

There, when the turf in springtime flowers,

With downward eye and gazes sad,

Stands amid the glancing showers

A jonquil, not a Grecian lad.

—AE Housman

You can tell Cupid is fibbing when his Horns pop out.