Comic #4319: soonish

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Top Text: "HEY EVERYONE! BELOW IS A COMIC ABOUT THE NEW BOOK WE'RE PUTTING UP FOR PRE-ORDER TODAY! IT'S A BOOK ABOUT EMERGING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND I AND KELLY SPENT THE LAST TWO YEARS RESEARCHING AND WRITING IT. SO WE'D REALLY APPRECIATE IT IF YOU'D CLICK THIS IMAGE TO TAKE A LOOK AND CONSIDER BUYING IT?"

Panel 1: Person 1: "WHAT HAVE WE DONE?" Person 2: "CAVETS WERE STATED."

Panel 2: Person 1: "I'M GONNA HAVE TO REVEAL YOUR REAL WORK!" Person 2: "THAT'S PROBABLY BEST FOR LIGHTING IT UP."

Panel 3: Narrator: "FROM EARLY 2015 TO LATE 2016, WE HAD A LOT OF FUN RESEARCHING, MAKING NOTES, AND INFINITE RESEARCH." Person 1: "GIMME!"

Panel 4: Person 2: "THIS IS A GUIDE TO FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES, DEEPLY RESEARCHED, BUT WITH COMICS AND STUFF TO LIGHTEN IT UP."

Panel 5: Person 1: "SO, THAT'S HOW A JOSEPHSON JUNCTION WORKS!" Person 2: "AT TIMES, IT WAS FUN."

Panel 6: Person 1: "AT TIMES, IT WAS WEIRD." Person 2: "THAT ONE GUY WE TALKED TO WHO HAD A NOBEL PRIZE, HE MADE A PRETTY STRONG CASE FOR LEGAL ORGAN MARKETS." Person 3: "NO SELLING YOUR KIDNEYS!" Person 1: "YOU'RE ALWAYS HOLDING ME BACK!"

Panel 7: Person 1: "AT TIMES, IT WAS PAINFUL." Person 2: "I'VE REACHED A POINT IN MY LIFE WHERE I NO LONGER WANT TO FEEL ANY ANNOYING METHODS FOR SPACE LAUNCH."

Panel 8: Person 1: "SO WHAT, YOU'RE DEAD?" Person 2: "CAN WE BECOME ALCOHOLICS NOW?"

Panel 9: Person 1: "NO. WE HAVE CHILDREN." Person 2: "AND THEY'RE ALWAYS HOLDING ME BACK!"

Panel 10: Narrator: "THIS BOOK TOOK EVERY SKILL WE HAD," Person 2: "FROM DRAWING DIRTY NERD JOKES—"

Panel 11: Person 1: "TO EXPLAINING HOW MICROBIOME CAN BE USED TO DETECT CANCER."

Panel 12: Person 2: "TO EXPLAINING WHY SCRAMBLED EGGS ARE SO HARD TO BOIL!"

Panel 13: "BLESS THEM."

Final Panel: Person 1: "SO, I'M ASKING YOU TO COME WITH ME ON THE NEXT ADVENTURE AND TO LEARN LOTS OF WEIRD SCIENCE, HISTORY, AND EVEN SOUL PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY ALONG THE WAY." Narrator: "PRESENTING… 'SOONISH: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES THAT WILL RUIN EVERYTHING!'"

Promo Section: "AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW! JUST CLICK!" (Illustration of a book cover: “Soonish”)

Lower Text: "OR, IF YOU THINK I'M MAYBE BIASED BECAUSE I WROTE IT (OR BECAUSE I LOOOOOVE MONEY), HERE ARE SOME NICE THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT IT:"

SCOTT AARONSON: "BASICALLY, I THINK THIS BOOK IS A MASTERPIECE, AND SOMETHING I WISH I’D WRITTEN MYSELF."
TIM HARFORD: "SPACE ELEVATORS, GOLD ASTEROIDS, AND FUSION-POWERED TOASTERS - WHO KNEW SCIENCE COULD BE SO MUCH FUN?"
PHIL PLIATT: “PLAYFUL, YET DEEP.”
ALEXIS OHANIAN: "I PROMISE, ONLY ONE OF THEM WAS COERCED.”

Additional Visual: (A person in a chair with a speech bubble saying, "Phil!!") Person 2: "Our basement!"

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