Comic #4133: i-am-no-longer-a-child

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Panel 1:

• Character 1: "Father, I have come of age. I wish no longer to play with the toys of childhood."

Panel 2:

• Character 2: "Let it be thus. You must begin to grow the traditional near-invisible mustache."

Panel 3:

• Character 1: "I shall commence playing music at a volume that will damage my inner ear, scarring myself as you were scarred in your youth."

Panel 4:

• Character 2: "You must bathe but once every few days, and then not thoroughly, so that as others pass you by, they will say, 'There walks no boy.'"

Panel 5:

• Character 1: "I will do what I must."

Panel 6:

• Character 2: "Are you afraid, man-child?"
• Character 1: "One cannot fear what must be."

Panel 7:

• Character 2: "It is hard. But, it is well."

Panel 8:

• Character 2: "Come, and we shall adorn your room walls with men you will never equal, and women you will never bed."

Panel 9:

• Character 1: "Let it be done."