I think the key to all of this may lie in the 30-year anniversary interview in which he plainly said "I only make cartoons exclusively for me. I've been given advice to write for an audience, and I ignored that advice"
Jesus CHRIST the hands in that fourth panel. Is she part praying mantis???
Death Avoids Her
...that almost makes sense? Except almost every appearance up til now has been about him saving himself for marriage
The "cartoonist" strongly believes that women only experienxe sexual desire for men with gargantuan muscles and heads, often wearing turtlenecks
Did you understand the punchline? Is she saying the groom wouldn't be satisfied unless she were pregnant going up the aisle, or that he just doesn't want alterations to *her* dress?
AND YET as adults he has them act like toddlers (throwing tantrums, fixation on chocolate). It's very obvious what "Lolly" is short for.
He insisted that the Strawwoman he invented was a kind of person you encountered all the time. All of us have had that friend who walked into our life, nameless, to insist a relative ought to abort her unplanned pregnancy for no reason other than she just could. SO relatable.