3172: Fifteen Years - Revision history

DollarStoreBa'al: Didn't know that this category existed, but it certainly belongs here.

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Didn't know that this category existed, but it certainly belongs here.

Natg19: /* Transcript */ aurora

2026-01-23T20:15:43Z

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Maxcodes: added Category:Comics to make one feel old using HotCat

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added Category:Comics to make one feel old using HotCat

Lettherebedarklight: /* Transcript */ clean up

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‎Transcript: clean up

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	==Explanation==		==Explanation==
−	~~{{incomplete\|This page was created by a STILL CANCER-FREE BOT. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}~~
	[[Randall]]'s then-fiancée (now wife) was diagnosed with cancer in late 2010. This is a matter he has discussed in the comic [[:Category:Cancer\|multiple times before]], with [[Randall]] being depicted as [[Cueball]] and his wife as [[Megan]]. At this comic's release, it had been 15 years since her diagnosis and treatments.		[[Randall]]'s then-fiancée (now wife) was diagnosed with cancer in late 2010. This is a matter he has discussed in the comic [[:Category:Cancer\|multiple times before]], with [[Randall]] being depicted as [[Cueball]] and his wife as [[Megan]]. At this comic's release, it had been 15 years since her diagnosis and treatments.

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 [[Randall]]'s then-fiancée (now wife) was diagnosed with cancer in late 2010. This is a matter he has discussed in the comic [[:Category:Cancer|multiple times before]], with [[Randall]] being depicted as [[Cueball]] and his wife as [[Megan]]. At this comic's release, it had been 15 years since her diagnosis and treatments.
-This comic continues previous comics in [[:Category:X Years|the series]] – [[1141: Two Years]], [[1928: Seven Years]], and [[2386: Ten Years]] – the initial parts of which are shown in the first 20 panels, which are grayed-out. These take us through the initial diagnosis and inability to imagine what future might be, into concerns about it potentially recurring, and up to enjoying ten years of life together that they weren't sure they would have.
+This comic continues previous comics in [[:Category:X Years|the series]] – [[1141: Two Years]], [[1928: Seven Years]], and [[2386: Ten Years]] – the initial parts of which are shown in the first 20 panels, which are grayed-out. These take us through the initial diagnosis and inability to imagine what the future might be, into concerns about the illness potentially recurring, and up to enjoying ten years of life together that they weren't sure they would have.
 After some new panels marking more significant non-cancer-related events from the most recent five years of their life, Megan announces some potentially concerning-sounding symptoms she's experiencing. However, the punchline is that these are just the signs of growing old,  which Cueball is experiencing too. This is good news, considering the serious medical scares they lived through.

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 ==Explanation==
 {{incomplete|This page was created by a STILL CANCER-FREE BOT. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
-[[Randall]]'s then-fiancée, now wife was diagnosed with cancer in late 2010. This is a matter he has discussed in the comic [[:Category:Cancer|multiple times before]], with [[Randall]] being depicted as [[Cueball]] and his wife as [[Megan]]. At this comic's release, it had been 15 years since her diagnosis and treatments.
+[[Randall]]'s then-fiancée (now wife) was diagnosed with cancer in late 2010. This is a matter he has discussed in the comic [[:Category:Cancer|multiple times before]], with [[Randall]] being depicted as [[Cueball]] and his wife as [[Megan]]. At this comic's release, it had been 15 years since her diagnosis and treatments.
 This comic continues previous comics in [[:Category:X Years|the series]] – [[1141: Two Years]], [[1928: Seven Years]], and [[2386: Ten Years]] – the initial parts of which are shown in the first 20 panels, which are grayed-out. These take us through the initial diagnosis and inability to imagine what future might be, into concerns about it potentially recurring, and up to enjoying ten years of life together that they weren't sure they would have.

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 The title text continues that ending with a play on a common conversation topic. Normally someone rhetorically asks "Want to feel old?" and then follows it with a description of a difference the conversants have with the younger generation, or how long it's been since some significant event they both experienced, as Randall has done in [[:Category:Comics to make one feel old|several previous comics]]. This is meant to make the other person feel bad about their age. In this case, though, the question is taken literally, with a simple "Yes" response to indicate that feeling old is better than being dead and they are happy to be alive and to have had the time they have.
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 The final four panels show them sitting and talking in a field. Randall is lying down, his wife is sitting against a tree. They're celebrating her being cancer-free 15 years after her diagnosis and enjoying growing old together.
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	The title text continues that ending with a play on a common conversation topic. Normally someone rhetorically asks "Want to feel old?" and then follows it with a description of a difference the conversants have with the younger generation, or how long it's been since some significant event they both experienced, as Randall has done in [[:Category:Comics to make one feel old\|several previous comics]]. This is meant to make the other person feel bad about their age. In this case, though, the question is taken literally, with a simple "Yes" response to indicate that feeling old is better than being dead and they are happy to be alive and to have had the time they have.		The title text continues that ending with a play on a common conversation topic. Normally someone rhetorically asks "Want to feel old?" and then follows it with a description of a difference the conversants have with the younger generation, or how long it's been since some significant event they both experienced, as Randall has done in [[:Category:Comics to make one feel old\|several previous comics]]. This is meant to make the other person feel bad about their age. In this case, though, the question is taken literally, with a simple "Yes" response to indicate that feeling old is better than being dead and they are happy to be alive and to have had the time they have.
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		+	===The new panels===

	The first of the new panels shows Randall and his wife in bed, with Randall reading her {{w\|Tove Jansson}}'s ''{{w\|Moominland Midwinter}}''. He wants to stop because they need to get to sleep, she convinces him to read one more chapter. It didn't take much arm-twisting, her argument was simply a grunt. The choice of this particular book, which deals with the adventures of someone who should really be sleeping, might be meaningful for one or more of several reasons.		The first of the new panels shows Randall and his wife in bed, with Randall reading her {{w\|Tove Jansson}}'s ''{{w\|Moominland Midwinter}}''. He wants to stop because they need to get to sleep, she convinces him to read one more chapter. It didn't take much arm-twisting, her argument was simply a grunt. The choice of this particular book, which deals with the adventures of someone who should really be sleeping, might be meaningful for one or more of several reasons.