2014-10-21

A green-toned comic in five panels. A balding man in a yellow shirt meets a grinning double of himself, also in a yellow shirt, who appears to float in the air. The man asks, "Whoa, what are you?" The double answers, "I'm the physical embodiment of your self-perception." The man asks, "My self-perception can fly?!" The double replies, "Oh, no. I'm not flying. I'm standing atop a heap of nothing, afraid to look down." Both figures now look glum. In the final panel the real man has shrunk to a small dejected figure at the lower left and grumbles, "This puppet therapy thing is stupid," while his self-perception double floats even higher and cheerfully says, "Oh lookie! The heap just got higher!" Votey: a black-and-white close-up line drawing of two faces pressed close together, one grinning wide-eyed and the other open-mouthed, their arms tangled in an awkward embrace or struggle.