Comic #2297: 2011-08-28

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Panel 1: "I've taken history's greatest conquerors and combined their DNA to create the most powerful supervillain ever known!"

Panel 2: "Genghis Khan!" "Alexander of Macedon!" "Charlemagne!"

Panel 3: "Napoleon."

Panel 4: "What do you mean 'combined their DNA'?"

Panel 5: "You know… DNA doesn’t work that way. Even if it did, you can’t be sure the child will express all the qualities you wanted. You’d have to completely understand its environment and epigenome, which is essentially impossible."

Panel 6: "So… what have you been doing for ten years?"

Panel 7: "As far as I can tell, you mushed some historically valuable bones into a paste, shaped it into a blob and dunked it in an aquarium."

Panel 8: "So… how do I get the next great supervillain?"

Panel 9: "They arise organically. Look in a country with recently high inflation, shaped per capita income and a bad Gini coefficient."

Panel 10: "Gini coefficient. Christ, man. Here’s a macroeconomics textbook."

Panel 11: [No dialogue]

Panel 12: (SIGN) "SCIENCE RUINING EVERYTHING SINCE 1543"

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