This page has the visual punchline to the story of an elephant in a circus who falls in love with an acrobat. But he’s decided (without checking with her first, always a bad sign) that she won’t like him because of his nose. He looks too weird for her. So he goes out and gets a nose job. And a complete skin transplant, too because why not?

And when he shows off his new look to her? She says “I liked you better before, when you had your trunk.” Ouch.

The next two pages show the elephant getting drunk and becoming a heroin addict. Then, when he decides to go to the elephant graveyard to die, the attendant won’t let him in because he doesn’t look like an elephant.

It’s a bit over-the-top, but Boucq writes satire, so it works.

(Heavy Metal issue #143, March 1993 – Page 55 Pachyderm by Boucq)