Comic #4403: marine-biology

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Panel 1:

• Character 1: "When I grow up, I wanna be a marine biologist!"
• Character 2: "I happen to know a marine biologist! Let’s go talk to her!"

Panel 2:

• Character 3: "So, what do you do all day?"
• Character 4: "Every day, I look at data about ocean health and then I scream for a while."

Panel 3:

• Character 4: "This is my scream room, or "a lab," where we figure out specifically why we’re screaming."
• Character 3: "We put that information in an envelope addressed to Congress, then we put that envelope into the recycling bin."
• Character 4: "And then we scream for a while."

Panel 4:

• Character 1: "Why aren’t you screaming now?"
• Character 4: "I have a lab technician screaming for me next door while I talk to you."
• Character 2: "I thought it was a firetruck."

Panel 5:

• Character 4: "Haha! Nope. It’s pure abyssal horror whistling its way out of a grown woman’s larynx!"

Panel 6:

• Character 3: "Wowwww."

Panel 7:

• Character 2: "So… you know… if Sally wants to do marine biology when she grows up…"
• Character 4: "I would try to find life on Enceladus."