2010-10-20

A red banner above the comic reads: "HORRIBLE TRUTH: All technological progress is due to humanity's unearned sense of entitlement." In the single panel, a red-haired man in a yellow t-shirt stands in a dim room, gripping a smartphone in one hand and jabbing his other index finger angrily toward the sky. His speech bubble: "Dammit, GPS! How long does it take to talk to space?! It's RIGHT THERE." The joke: he's impatient that his phone can't instantly communicate with satellites in orbit, illustrating the entitlement the banner describes. Votey (aftercomic): a separate hand-lettered caption box adds, "Well... that and video games and porn," rounding out the list of things humanity's entitlement supposedly drove progress for.