This comic strip is a reference to the widely known short story by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart.” In this short, a man murders another man and hides his body under the floor of his home. Eventually, the murderer’s guilt causes him to hallucinate the beating heart of his victim emanating from the floorboards.
In the comic strip, however, the man has murdered popular electronic music duo Daft Punk, whose highly repetitive and measured beats could be likened to that of a heart. This similarity in timing and sound is what made this comic strip happen.
