Comic #2454: 2012-02-04

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Description

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Panel 1:

• A man with brown, curly hair wearing a suit is asking a question to a man with a bald head and glasses, wearing a green shirt.
• The man in the suit says: "What led you to create so many amazing inventions?"
• The bald man responds: "Well, I read a lot of science fiction as a boy."

Panel 2:

• The bald man continues: "As an adult, I wanted the stuff in those books. So… I built it."
• The man in the suit looks impressed and says: "Wow, that's beautiful…"

Panel 3:

• The man in the suit continues: "That's beautiful. There's a sort of science/sci-fi ecosystem where fiction begets science which begets newer fiction which begets more science."
• The bald man nods and says: "Yeah… yeah, it's mostly beautiful…"

Panel 4:

• The scene shifts, showing the bald man sitting at a desk, looking at a computer screen.
• The text at the bottom reads: "Twice a day every day for the last 25 years…"
• On the computer screen, there's a website titled "ALIENPORN."

This comic humorously explores the connection between science fiction and technological innovation, while providing a twist at the end.