Comic #6286: apocalack

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Panel 1: Character 1: Whatcha doing?
Character 2: Oh?
Character 2: My whole life I've been saying "it can't go on like this for five more years. Something's gotta give." Then, nothing gives.

Panel 2: Character 2: I mean the worst things ever in history keep happening, but history keeps shambling forward like a zombie riddled with bullet holes. Even if there was a nuclear world war, the survivors would rebuild, and in a few centuries they'd read about us in a history class and get the dates wrong. And then they'd blow themselves up, rebuild, forget.

Panel 3: Character 2: Not for me, man. No more wheel of fate. I’m gonna dig a hole, climb into it, then eat cans of beans and tell myself there’s been a cataclysmic denouement for everything I hold dear.

Panel 4: Character 1: You got room for two in there?
Character 2: Sorry son, it’d kill the fantasy.

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This transcription captures the spoken dialogue and the characters' interactions as they discuss themes of despair and existentialism.