A simple, hand-drawn comic strip in four rows. The first row shows a sunny scene in a bog or marsh with a wooden platform and stick figures standing on it, surrounded by tall grasses and water.
The second row has two panels:
Left panel: One stick figure, an adult, stands on the platform addressing a smaller stick figure, a child. Text reads: "Today, my son, you become a man."
Right panel: The crowd of stick figures on the platform cheers. Text reads: "Rub the bog! Rub the bog!"
The third row has two panels:
Left panel: The child stick figure is face-down in the water and mud near the platform, with only their legs and torso visible. Text reads: "(rubbing)"
Right panel: The child stick figure is back on the platform, standing upright and cheering. Text reads: "I did it!"
The fourth row shows a crowd of stick figures cheering, with the text "Hooray!" above them, celebrating the child's achievement of rubbing the bog.
5 nights left! Tonight I used the #botober #botober2025 prompt from the 23rd, "rub the bog". It sounded like something a group would chant, so I tried to come up with a context in which that "made sense".