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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
This comic shows a box of "Deep-cleaning pore strips," which are a skin-care product designed to clean your pores. You stick them on your face, wait a while, and then rip them off. When they come off, a whole lot of disgusting gunk, like dirt and body oils, is lifted out of your pores with them. The kind shown in the comic, however, is "deep cleaning", and rips out not only the user's pore gunk, but also his entire skull. However, the skull looks extremely clean, so the cleaning has probably worked.
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This comic shows a box of "Deep-cleaning pore strips," which are a skin-care product designed to (of all things) clean your pores. You basically stick them on your face, wait a while, and then rip them off. When they come off, a whole lot of disgusting gunk from out of your pores comes off with them. The kind shown in the comic, however, is super-deep cleaning, and rips out not only the users pore gunk, but also his pores, all his facial skin, and his entire skull.
 
 
The title text indicates that while Randall is aware that pore-cleaning strips are useless and possibly harmful products created to make money by "solving" something that isn't actually a problem, they are quite effective at getting things out of the pores on a person's nose.
 
 
 
The title text also refers to the cosmetics industry as the "cosmetics-industrial complex", which is a play on the term "{{w|military-industrial complex}}", coined by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States.
 
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
 
:[A box of pore strips, marked "deep cleaning."]
 
:[A box of pore strips, marked "deep cleaning."]
 
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:[Cueball examinnes the box.]
:[Cueball examines the box.]
 
 
 
 
:[Cueball applies strip to face.]
 
:[Cueball applies strip to face.]
 
 
:[Cueball pulls on strip.]
 
:[Cueball pulls on strip.]
 
 
:[Cueball pulls skull out of head with pore strip.]
 
:[Cueball pulls skull out of head with pore strip.]
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

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