Fishing

This is a dark humor comic strip by the artist @ccmh_comics (popular on Instagram/TikTok) that plays on a classic dad joke/pun in Indonesian/Malay language.
The comic has 7 panels:

A father and son are fishing. The excited son casts his line dramatically.
The hook flies far… and suddenly comes straight back toward the son.
The son realizes too late — the hook is heading right for him.
The father calmly reels in the line while the son sits in shock.
Close-up: the fishing hook is embedded deep in the son’s thumb, blood everywhere.
The father proudly holds up the rod with the “catch” (his son’s thumb on the hook) and says smiling:
“FISHING
‘Ciri-ciri makhluk hidup’”
Final panel: extreme close-up of the mangled, bleeding thumb → “END”

The joke/pun explained:
In Indonesian schools, one of the first biology lessons kids learn is “Ciri-ciri makhluk hidup” = “The characteristics of living things.”
The standard list is usually 7–10 characteristics, but one that is almost always included and taught first is:
→ “Bergerak” or “Pernah bergerak” = “It moves” (living things show movement).
The father “catches” his son’s thumb on the hook.
The thumb is bleeding, in pain, and clearly reacting/moving → therefore it proves the thumb belongs to a living thing.
So the father is jokingly treating the fishing trip as a successful biology lesson:
“Look son, we just proved this is a living creature because it moves (when hooked)!”
It’s very dark dad humor: the father is happy because he technically “caught” something that fulfills the school definition of “living thing”… using his own child’s thumb as brutal evidence.
That’s why the title is “Fishing: Ciri-ciri makhluk hidup” — turning a gruesome accident into a twisted biology demonstration. Classic CCMH style.

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