Comic #4386: the-chosen-one

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Panel 1:

• Person 1: "YOU, CHILD! YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE! ONE DAY YOU WILL STAND BETWIXT GOOD AND EVIL AND THROUGH YOU GOOD SHALL PREVAIL!"
• Child: "Really?"
• Person 2: "It is foretold in prophecy."

Panel 2:

• Child: "HEY, DAD! I'M GIVING UP ON LEARNING, THINKING, AND GOOD BEHAVIOR!"
• Person 1: "I… THAT'S…"
• Person 2: "IT'S NOT AGAINST THE RULES, IS IT?"

Panel 3:

• Person 1: "NO, BUT IT'S REALLY NOT IN THE SPIRIT OF THINGS."
• Child: (smiling) "TURNS OUT LIFE IS TOTALLY SET FOR ME! I'M GONNA DO NOTHING, THEN GET FAMOUS SOMEHOW, AND PARLAY THAT INTO WEALTH."

Panel 4:

• Narration: "40 YEARS LATER…"
• Person 3: "WE NOW GO TO OUR INTERVIEW WITH DAVID JENKINS, WHO DEFEATED THE WICKED DEMON, MORDRAX."

Panel 5:

• Person 3: "I UNDERSTAND YOU STABBED HIM BEFORE HE SAW YOU."
• David Jenkins: "Yeah. Right in the back."

Panel 6:

• Person 3: "HOW DID YOU KNOW IT WAS HIM?"
• David Jenkins: "I THOUGHT HE WAS THIS TEENAGER WHO OWES ME MONEY FOR METH."

Panel 7:

• Person 3: "SO, IT WAS 'LUCKY,' IF YOU WILL."
• David Jenkins: "I MEAN… I STAB A LOT OF PEOPLE WHEN I'M DRUNK."