i don't mean to come over as overly negative, but i am getting tired of this joke. just about everyone[/hyperbole] has made the 'pokemon = dog fighting' joke, and the 'are you a boy, or a girl' joke, and the 'oak doesn't know his own grandson's name' joke, and, quite frankly, they're never unique. they never tell the story differently, it's always the exact same structure for the joke.
i guess that's the problem with the 'pokemon easy button': it's been pushed far too often accross our culuture(s), that it's become completely devoid of any value.
I guess what i'm saying is: dull, unoriginal comic this week, but i know next week's will probably be better.