Comic #5314: fairy-tales

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Comic Transcript:

Panel 1: Character 1: "My gosh. Have you read these old Grimm's fairy tales?" Character 2: "Yes. They're so pleasant!"

Panel 2: Character 2: "Here's how all modern kids' stories go: We've burned down the forests, eaten all the fish, damned the sky, and we've been super racist, sexist, and at war for the last 100 centuries and you need to fix it."

Panel 3: Character 1: "Old stories are all about how kids who don’t behave get eaten by witches and kids who do behave turn out to be princesses." Character 2: "What's more likely to give you a lifelong anxiety problem? Book A or Book B?"

Panel 4: Character 1: "What's the alternative?" Character 2: "I'm working on a Nietzschean book for kids entitled 'There is no moral truth so here are some funny hippos.'"

The comic features a conversation between two characters discussing fairy tales, modern storytelling, and alternatives to traditional narratives. The setting is under a night sky.