2012-02-04

A four-panel comic. Panel 1: An interviewer with brown hair asks a bald older inventor in a green shirt, "What led you to create so many amazing inventions?" The inventor replies, "Well, I read a lot of science fiction as a boy." Panel 2: The inventor (off-panel) continues, "As an adult, I wanted the stuff in those books. So... I built it." The interviewer, now shown in a suit, beams and says, "Wow, that's beautiful..." Panel 3: The interviewer enthuses, "That's beautiful. There's a sort of science/sci fi ecosystem where fiction begets science which begets newer fiction which begets more science." The inventor now looks uneasy and replies, "Yeah... yeah, it's mostly beautiful..." Panel 4: A red caption reads "Twice a day every day for the last 25 years..." Below, the shirtless inventor sits at a desk staring with a strained expression at a computer monitor showing a website titled "ALIENPORN" — revealing the less noble side of his sci-fi-driven motivation. Votey: A handwritten note reads, "Proposed neologisms for masturbating to science fiction: - Blasterbation - James T. Jerk - I, Rub It."