 The painting shows a teary @-@ eyed woman on a turbulent sea . She is emotionally distressed , seemingly from a romance . A thought bubble reads : " I Don 't Care ! I 'd Rather Sink — Than Call Brad For Help ! " This narrative element highlights the clichéd melodrama , while its graphics reiterate Lichtenstein 's theme of painterly work imitating mechanized reproduction . The work is derived from a 1962 DC Comics panel , while also borrowing from Hokusai 's The Great Wave off Kanagawa and from elements of modernist artists Jean Arp and Joan Miró . It is one of several Lichtenstein works that mention a character named Brad who is absent from the picture . Both the graphical and narrative elements of the work are cropped from the source image . 
