2014-12-19

A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A young woman with reddish hair asks her father, 'Dad do you think would win if Batman fought Superman?' Panel 2: The father, a man with reddish hair and glasses, launches into a nihilistic monologue: 'Human victory even on the grandest scale is not meaningfully different from a tribe of ants glorifying in the discovery of a dead rat.' Panel 3: He continues, 'There would be no win and no loss. Just the ongoing rearrangement of particles as they sleepwalk toward entropic, purgatory.' Panel 4: The daughter cuts through his philosophizing by asking, 'What if Batman had a kryptonite batarang?' The father immediately answers, 'Batman, then.' The joke: his grand cosmic indifference instantly collapses into a concrete fanboy verdict when given a specific detail. Votey (aftercomic): The Batman bat-symbol logo, followed by a greater-than sign and the words 'existential crisis' — i.e., Batman beats existential crisis.