The Important Field
by Jeff
Image text: I hear in some places, you need one form of ID to buy a gun, but two to pay for it by check. It's interesting who has what incentives to care about what mistakes.
This comic is a commentary on how serious websites take the email address form, in this case to the ridiculous, asking for your email address twice to prevent a mistype, but only asking for the missile target coordinates once. Lots of websites make you type your email address twice, because having your correct email address is very valuable to these companies so they can send you "exclusive offers" and other spam to get you to buy things.
I'm not sure whether or not the claim in the image text is correct, can any one verify?
Suspicion
by Jeff
Image text: Fine, walk away. I'm gonna go cry into a pint of Ben&Jerry's Brownie Batter(tm) ice cream [link], then take out my frustration on a variety of great flash games from PopCap Games(r) [link].
In this comic, the main character is having online chats with what appears at first glance to be a woman. However, in requesting that they both "get tested". The woman on the other end of the computer does not pass a CAPTCHA test and is unable to prove she is a human.
This is an internet version of the Turing test. A spambot is a program that send out links (such as in the image text) to simulate an human's writing. This test is called "VK", which stands for Voight-Kampff, which is the machine in Blade Runner which determines human from replicant.
In using the phrase "get tested", the comic is making a pun that refers both to the CAPTCHA test above and the STD test that couples will take to make sure they are physically clean.