Comic #3261: 2014-04-22

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Panel 1: Character A (purple alien with a single eye) is speaking excitedly to Character B (a man with short brown hair, wearing a green shirt).

• Character A: "Quick! The evil universe is pushing into this one!"
• Character B: "Evil universe?"

Panel 2: Character A continues explaining.

• Character A: "Haven't you heard? There's a universe where everything that happens is the mere result of mathematical law."
• Character B: "It's a universe of hideous perfection: justice, compassion, love, souls… these things aren't written into physics."

Panel 3: Character A emphasizes the threat.

• Character A: "It's an entire cosmos of horrid automatons that evolved from protoplasm into computing machines, dragging along all the cruelty and sadism that helped their antecedents survive! We’ve got to deactivate them!"

Panel 4: Character B looks stunned.

• Character B: "Wow… uh, jeez, I—"

Panel 5: Character A seems to realize something.

• Character A: "Oh God. You're from… oh… uh… so, hi. Uh, hello."

Panel 6: Character B tries to navigate the situation.

• Character B: "This must be awkward for you."
• Character A: "Mostly it's just weird how a sack of atoms can talk."

This transcription captures the dialogue and flow of the comic accurately.