Comic #2412: 2011-12-21

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Description

Panel 1
Child in bed, looking scared.
Child: "DAD! I’m scared to go to the bathroom because the bedmonster will grab my legs."
Shadowy figure of a dad in the background.

Panel 2
Dad looking serious.
Dad: "Son, you should treasure the dread you feel now. The older you get, the harder it is to lend credence to your imagination."

Panel 3
Dad looking reflective.
Dad: "When I go back to my room, all I’m going to see is a cold half of a bed alongside a woman who's slowly become a stranger to me. If anything’s under the bed, it’s our midnight contemplations, compelled downward by their heaviness."

Panel 4
Dad looking intense.
Dad: "But you still have fear, and as long as you have fear you have hope, so don’t ask me to cast out your fear. I’ve long since forgotten what it means to be afraid."

Panel 5
Child looking worried.
In the background, the door is open and a figure is standing there.

Panel 6
Monster lurking under the bed, looking up.
Monster: "I think your dad needs to talk to someone."
Child looking confused at the monster.