The Mystery Wen (Palomar)

This week I read "The Mystery Wen" in the comic book series "Palomar". It was a short comic strip but it looked interesting, so I read it. This week I will focus on the story line instead of the aesthetics of the illustrations. It was about a man who had a lump on his head and was scared to go to the doctor to find out what it was. Eventually he went and was told it was just a lump and to just put ice on it and it would go away. He went home to his wife and she had pity on him, but everyone else thought he was a real baby and said to suck it up. Eventually he had a bad dream and grabbed a stick and whacked his head. We find out later that it was just a bad tooth ache and when he hit his head with the stick, it knocked his tooth loose and he was finally better. I thought it was a good story because you are left guessing the entire story. I thought it could be some kind of growth or something bad, but it is only revealed at the end that it was just a tooth ache. The very last panel is the man saying that he has a pain in his side. This leaves you to think about what he will do now to cure that pain.. He will probably find a stick and start beating his side... lol