Comic #2258: 2011-07-20

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Panel 1: "For years, we told ourselves this was the best of all possible worlds."

Panel 2: "It's not bad that we disagree. Having someone who just yessed everything I said would be boring."

Panel 3: "But when robotics technology advanced to the point of creating humanoids, it turned out we were all just victims of a sort of species-wide Stockholm syndrome."

Panel 4: "I don’t want to go out tonight."

"Nor."

Panel 5: "ADAM."

"EVE."

Panel 6: "The sudden profusion of split-ups was remarkably amicable."

Panel 7: "My ideal partner and I think you and I should dance."

Panel 8: "People were so happy, they grew complacent."

Panel 9: "So I said, why learn more physics? I don’t want physics. I want to get a sexier mate."

Panel 10: "The robotics industry began producing humanoids of lower and lower quality."

Panel 11: "Honey, what do you want for—"

"YES-YES."

Panel 12: "I feel like you’re not so much agreeing as repeating—"

"YES-YES."

Panel 13: "Society began to disintegrate, until the humanoid robots were banned."

Panel 14: "From now on, you must earn love by excelling at art, science, commerce, or any of the other myriad proxies for sexual fitness humanity has invented."

Panel 15: "By the time things returned to normal, we had survived, but were forever scarred by our fall from grace."

Panel 16: "Sweetie. Wanna see a movie tonight?"

"NOPE."

Panel 17: "There is no hell. We’re already in it."

"BOORINNGS."

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