Comic #4171: dust-in-the-wind

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Panel 1:

• Background: A starry night sky.
• Characters: Two women and one man.
  • Left: A woman with curly hair, wearing a pink top.
  • Center: A man with short hair and glasses, wearing a teal top.
  • Right: A woman with straight hair in a red dress.

Text: "The oldest recorded joke is from Sumeria, circa 1900 BC."

Panel 2:

• Background: Continuation of the night sky.
• Characters: The same three individuals.

Text: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman didn't fart in her husband's lap!"

Panel 3:

• Background: Same starry setting.
• Characters: The three are more animated.

Text: "It's not great." "That's the thing!"

Panel 4:

• Background: Night sky.

Text: "Empires have risen and fallen. Billions have lived and been forgotten. Even the man who wrote it down has been forgotten. But that fart joke lives on."

Panel 5:

• Background: Continuation of the starry background.

Text: "There's no way to know if we'll live on in history… if we'll achieve greatness or die in anonymity… but the destiny of that fart joke is certain: as long as humanity persists, so will it."

Panel 6:

• Background: Same setting.

Text: "Most of the things that most people do will never amount to as much as a mediocre Sumerian fart joke."

Panel 7:

• Background: Darker panel suggests a transition in mood.

Text: "I think you're being melodramatic."

Panel 8:

• Background: Dark scene, lower visibility.

Text: "We are dust, dust in the smelly wind."

Signature:

• "smbc-comics.com" is displayed at the bottom.

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