Comic #7132: epitaph

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Panel 1:

• Character 1: "Excuse me sir, where can we find your epitaph?"
• Character 2: "Hm.?"

Panel 2:

• Character 2: "When biological intelligences develop artificial intelligence, they enter a valedictory age. Typically, they gather their greatest poets to write their species' epitaph."

Panel 3:

• Character 2: "They're always simple, even a bit silly, but they have a kind of poignant beauty."
• Character 1: "Oh. Oh."

Panel 4:

• Character 1: "We didn't do that."
• Character 2: "What'd you do?"

Panel 5:

• Character 1: "We wanked."
• Character 2: "Wanked like crazy. Full VR wanks. Relentless. Like, it heated the atmosphere, man."

Panel 6:

• Character 2: "No gallant competition for the final sign-off of your kind?"
• Character 1: "Hm."

Panel 7:

• Character 1: "Winkity wankity dankity doo."

Panel 8:

• Character 2: "We must preserve them from extinction."
• Character 1: "They are so special. So different."

Panel 9:

• Character 1: "Hey can I get scans of y’all for my holodeck?"