Comic #4231: heroes

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Panel 1:

• Character 1: "Society is fractured. People are angry. We’re not producing agreed-upon heroes any more."
• Character 2: "All the great heroes come from an age when people were more unified… more able to agree on what qualifies as gallantry."
• Character 3: "Now they’re all dying."

Panel 2:

• Character 1: "In 20 years, there’ll be no heroes left to lose. Just famous people whose deaths are cheered by that group."

Panel 3:

• Character 4: "What’s the solution?"
• Character 2: "An all-out war for civilization would bring people together."

Panel 4:

• Character 3: "That’s impractical."
• Character 1: "Maybe it’s just how humans work."

Panel 5:

• Character 4: "Maybe a nation spending too much time without enemies is like a person spending too much time without friends. Eventually you get weird and break down."

Panel 6:

• Character 1: "Maybe we’re just in the dark part of a long cycle."
• Character 2: "Maybe the tree of heroes needs to be watered with blood."

Panel 7:

• Character 3: "Maybe it’s for the best."

Panel 8:

• Character 1: "Sure, as long as I don’t have to be one of the heroes."
• Character 2: "Well, yeah."