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2013-04-09

Original: 2013-04-09 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1 (single panel):

A man with orange hair and glasses (off-panel speech bubble): IF GOD IS ALL-GOOD, ALL-KNOWING AND ALL-POWERFUL, HOW CAN THERE BE EVIL?

A bald priest with glasses, wearing a black clerical shirt with white collar: IF THERE WERE NO EVIL IN THE UNIVERSE, THERE WOULD BE NO BATMAN.

The orange-haired man (raising a finger, excited): PRAISE THE LORD!

Caption below the comic: The quickest way to convert comic geeks is the “Argument from Batman.”

Votey:

Close-up sketch of the orange-haired man's face, looking troubled and uneasy.
Man: WAIT... BUT IF BATMAN ISN'T REAL...

Alt text

A single-panel comic against a dark red background. A man with orange hair and glasses asks, via a speech bubble, "If God is all-good, all-knowing and all-powerful, how can there be evil?" A bald priest in a black clerical shirt and white collar replies, "If there were no evil in the universe, there would be no Batman." The orange-haired man, shown in profile, raises a finger and exclaims, "Praise the Lord!" A caption beneath reads: The quickest way to convert comic geeks is the “Argument from Batman.”

Votey: A rough black-and-white sketch close-up of the orange-haired man's face, now looking worried and dismayed, saying, "Wait... but if Batman isn't real..." — the unsettling realization that the same logic implies Batman doesn't exist.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.