Comic #3253: 2014-04-14
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Panel 1:
- Character with glasses: “Immortality is impossible. The universe is too dangerous.”
- Character with a lighter skin tone: “Your body now cannot die of natural causes. We expect you’ll live for 200 years.”
Panel 2:
- Character with a blue top: “So we created ‘backward immortality.’”
- “We can store memories in your brain. And there’s no reason your memories can’t go beyond the age of zero.”
Panel 3:
- Character thinking: “By this means, lives could be ‘extended’ as long as anyone wanted.”
- Character with glasses: “Ahh, I remember the good old days before the forces of reality split up.”
Panel 4:
- Character on the left: “This created happiness and unity.”
- Character on the right: “Hey, remember that time when the world was without form and void and darkness was upon the deep?”
Panel 5:
- Character with a beard: “But it also created flawed expectations.”
- “I must be special to have survived so long.”
Panel 6:
- Beard character: “Everyone died in the first month.”
- “I’ve been around 4 billion years. I’ve survived the Big Bang. What are the odds that walking in traffic will kill me?”
Panel 7:
- Beard character: “I suppose their deaths were our fault. But, I like to think they died smiling.”
Panel 8:
- Gravestone: “Here lies JONES ~ Born Beginning of Reality Died May 7, 2024”
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