Comic #3263: 2014-04-24

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Panel 1
Tom: What? What's the matter?
Other character: I built a time machine and I used it to look back into the past. But I was only able to look back 20 minutes!

Panel 2
Tom: That's still pretty good!
Other character: You don't understand. It would only go back 20 minutes because beyond that there's just… nothing there.

Panel 3
Tom: How can that be?
Other character: Reality started 20 minutes ago! It’s the only explanation!

Panel 4
Other character: I took video as I wound back time. And look! Here we are talking, and then we suddenly stop talking and we get these blank stares. And before that… nothing.

Panel 5
Tom: Tom, time started 20 minutes ago. 20 minutes.
Other character: Let me see that.

Panel 6
Tom: Ah, here's your problem. You set it to take you forward in time. So it's 40 minutes in the future.

Panel 7
Other character:

Panel 8
Other character:

(Note: The last two panels appear to be empty of dialogue in the visual representation.)