Sep12
In which Penelope throws out the baby with the bathwater, and receives an Endless visitor as a result.
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Panel 1:
(Penny argues with the government officials in the server room.)
Penny: No way! The Cray is mine! I scammed it fair and square! I won’t let you have it!
Panel 2:
(Penny types furiously at the keyboard.)
Penny: I’ll make it self-destruct! Its circuits are fusing already!
SFX: Clackity-clackity-clackity!
Panel 3:
(The two MIBs exit the room.)
Penny: Ha! I win! If I can’t have it, no one can!
Panel 4:
(Penny follows them into the hall, taunting them a second time, but she misses the apparition behind her.)
Penny: It’s dead, now… Deus ex machina that, suckers!
Death: Hi, there! I’m here for the Cray.
(Penny argues with the government officials in the server room.)
Penny: No way! The Cray is mine! I scammed it fair and square! I won’t let you have it!
Panel 2:
(Penny types furiously at the keyboard.)
Penny: I’ll make it self-destruct! Its circuits are fusing already!
SFX: Clackity-clackity-clackity!
Panel 3:
(The two MIBs exit the room.)
Penny: Ha! I win! If I can’t have it, no one can!
Panel 4:
(Penny follows them into the hall, taunting them a second time, but she misses the apparition behind her.)
Penny: It’s dead, now… Deus ex machina that, suckers!
Death: Hi, there! I’m here for the Cray.
The end already? And I was just getting into it.
C’mon Time, move faster so that it can be Wednesday already.
I’d imagine Dream is next, but the look of this strip is already close enough to my R.E.M. theatre…
Well…. I’d considered that, but I could only afford to license one of the Endless at a time
Kinda funny you’d mention that, though – I just scripted a 3-strip dream sequence last night! Maybe Morpheus will visit after all.