minimalism

A seven-panel comic in which an unseen narrator asks God why the universe is so simple at its most fundamental level. God, depicted as a serene blue-haired figure, explains that he is a "HUGE minimalist" using the language of decluttering guru Marie Kondo. He says he started with a "horde" of different particles but asked himself whether the "sneuticotntrino" really made him happy, or whether the "tau-zeta macrophotino" sparked joy. He pared things down to basics: just two kinds of one-dimensional string. After two wordless panels of his calm face, he marvels at the resulting complexity in a Darwin-quoting line, "From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful have arisen!" Then, abruptly: "Yes it IS about time for another cleanup asteroid, isn't it?" In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of God's face accompanies the punchline that decluttering also applies to extinction: "Dinosaurs had got way too hard to keep track of!"