This is a peculiar comic. It’s one of our old ones, and over the years many people have had a chuckle at it. When you ask them to explain what’s amusing about it, however, many people either can’t (“There’s just something funny about it”) or they go into a long and convoluted explanation of the joke, which turns out to be completely different from our own interpretation of it.
So I’m posting it with no commentary or pointers as to what the underlying joke is actually intended to be. If you find it funny, mildly amusing, or just like the cow, then whatever your interpretation of it that’s good enough for us. If you don’t “get it”, then it doesn’t matter – you can easily kill a good joke with a little analysis, so even if we did explain it, you still wouldn’t find it funny 😉
Cette bande dessinée est aussi disponible en français
This comic is also available in French
Questo fumetto è disponibile anche in italiano
This comic is also available in Italian
Click here to download the SVG source for this comic
'...and when you've finished, just give the secret code word, "MOO", and we'll come and cut you out...'
Our comics are released under a 
... which requires suitable attribution if you use them...
... and doesn't allow commercial use...
... and requires any derivative works to be released under the same licence.
This symbol indicates an SVG file that you can download and use under this licence
I’ve always liked this one, even if I made up my own joke!
Well, the two “obvious” levels are…
There’s gazillions of the them all over the place frantically waiting to be let out…
And then there’s all those cattle ranchers in Texas/Nevada/New Mexico etc that would probably not see the funny side of this at all
So this is why people find mutilated cow corpses…
They have very little chance to pick the right one, unless they pick up the whole lot (and have ton clean the saucer’s floor…)