Comic #2968: 2013-07-03

Description

Here’s the transcription of the text from the comic:

Panel 1: "Oh my God! There is no Wizard of Oz! It’s just a man behind a curtain!"

Panel 2: "Technically, both are true. Yes, I’m the man behind the curtain, but I also have a vast technological apparatus, a horde of secret knowledge, and decades of cultural inertia."

Panel 3: "Now that you know there's a man behind the curtain, you should be more awed. For a real wizard, this worldly puissance would be trifling."

Panel 4: "But for a man, the achievement of absolute mono-technocracy takes a level of single-mindedness and dispassion that verges on madness, or perhaps madness’s cold mirror. A God made man has all the weakness of perfection. A man made God has all the might of his deformities."

Panel 5: "Didn’t you wonder why I just put myself behind a mere bit of green cloth? Why not a wall? Why not a bunker? Why not a crystal case?"

Panel 6: "See, I like to be found now and then. I like to help, for when I give to the needy few, I am absolutely sure of what’s to come for the unknown many."

Panel 7: "Now then, you can either persist in your dull revelation, OR you can close the curtain and return to your world where good and power can alloy without wicked dross, and where the broken vessels of your lives can be made whole by the caprice of an inscrutable demigod."

Panel 8: "Second one please."

Panel 9: "Soon… and YOU now have courage!"

Panel 10: "Hooray!"

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