Comic #2844: 2013-03-01

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Title: THE MOON WAS OPENED FOR COLONISTS

Panel 1: Background: A view of a lunar landscape with a distant city. Caption: But it was prohibitively expensive.

Panel 2: Text bubble: WHAT A DEAL!!! Available now in Plait's Gulch 1 bedroom 1 bath, $10,000.00/month + 7 years labor

Panel 3: Text bubble (person 1): I hear this, local law doesn't share too many property rights.
Text bubble (person 2): Free land, right?

Panel 4: Background depicting the moon colonies populated by people in union suits. Text bubble (person 3): To this day, there is one reason that people still keep the spacecamps open: FREE LABOR.

Panel 5: Text bubble (person 4): Wait, what?
Text bubble (person 5): I don’t get it! People don’t feel like starving in the dark!

Panel 6: Text bubble (person 6): Conditions deteriorated rapidly.
Text bubble (person 5): Wait, “deteriorating” is such an understatement.

Panel 7: Text bubble (person 7): But a new form of advertising was discovered…

Panel 8: Text bubble (person 7): We believe these ways to eliminate some of the lunar economy, making it mostly around survival, leaving wellness areas a veritable mystery of uncertainty to prove it.

Panel 9: Text bubble (person 8): Once there couldn’t be enough food was tried to maintain problems, the colony separated individual tracking.

Panel 10: Text bubble (person 9): I claim this sector. Free color! This is Major Murphy’s Mighty Heart Staff Union!

Panel 11: Text bubble (person 10): I’ll sell these, right, free food.

Panel 12: Text bubble (person 11): I’m proud to announce that this month even happy meals will have an action figure! They really appreciate capitalism’s very quick pick… collect 'em all!

Panel 13: Text bubble (person 12): Ah! Look! I think these folks are about food!

Panel 14: Text bubble (person 13): The regulations were as inevitable as life itself built.
Text bubble (person 14): People don’t care what is being… government rarely does.

Panel 15: Text bubble (person 15): May these people treat one human well?!

Panel 16: Text bubble (person 16): But the earthlings were used for some. They viewed their devastation as entertainment.

Panel 17: Text bubble (person 17): Look at this. This is the human life.

Panel 18: Background shows the moon from a distance, revealing Earth nearby. Text bubble (person 18): The numbers were utterly disgusted. Eventually, they just left.

Panel 19: Text bubble (person 19): I killed my parents with a cookbook in this mess, but in this realm, I’ve been…

Panel 20: Text bubble (person 20): I hear there’s a sort of utopian society now.

Panel 21: Text bubble (person 21): Let’s re-establish Earth and build a nation based on equality and honor.

Panel 22: Text bubble (person 22): But I don’t really care. It sounds exciting.

Panel 23: Text bubble (person 23): Next, we’ll address the activists who share our plight. That might be the best of situations.

Panel 24: Text bubble (person 24): Maybe there’s something possible here…

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