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iPad

Title text: Maybe we're all gonna die, but we're gonna die in *really cool ways*.

Explanation

In this comic, Cueball is entertained by his iPad (which came out a few days prior to this comic) by messing around with Google Maps because he thinks it feels futuristic. Megan tries to bring perspective to him by telling him that there are so many more futuristic things in the (possibly) near future. Cueball still objects, because that makes him feel that he's too easily impressed by trivial things, and says that Megan is spoiling his fun by trying to make his source of entertainment seem so mundane compared to "monkeys controlling robotic arms via neural implants".

The title text is showing how Cueball is, instead of being horrified by all the new ways to die technology could present, like a scientist, enthralled by the many newer ways that death could occur.

Transcript

[Cueball is sitting in an armchair, playing with an iPad. Megan is looking over his shoulder.]

Cueball: Navigating Google Maps on the iPad is fun. It feels so futuristic.

Cueball: Swoosh! Zoom!

[Close-up on Megan.]

Megan: There are, right now, monkeys controlling robotic arms via neural implants.

Megan: A huge and alien future is barreling toward us. And I can't wait.

[Zoom-out on both characters. Cueball is still looking down on his iPad.]

Megan: But no, your iPad is cool, too.

Cueball: Stop spoiling my future with your slightly more distant one.

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Discussion

Maybe add something about the tilte text? I would do it myself but I don't undestanrd it so I can't108.162.240.43 17:15, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

I tried to fix something for the title, because there was nothing.