stars-war

A six-panel comic. A woman with brown hair speaks with a disembodied voice (shown as a speech bubble with no visible speaker). Woman: "Dear God, why does everything seem to be falling apart?" Voice: "Oh, that. Well, human life is without meaning and has been since 1983." Woman: "1983?" Voice: "Everyone's favorite movies up here are the Star Warses. We have a game where you try to rig up the most complex Rube Goldberg machine that ultimately creates those movies." Woman: "We were put here to make Star Wars?" Voice: "Empire Strikes Back in particular, yeah. Anyway, this universe took 14 billion years with about 1011110 instances of cause and effect, which puts it easily in the top 20% of entries." The woman, now shown small and alone in a vast empty panel, tries to salvage meaning: "But wait. We can still have meaning -- what about the other Star Warses?" Voice (deadpan, refusing to acknowledge the prequels or sequels): "There are THREE Star Wars movies. THREE." Votey: a single panel with the voice's bubble: "Though none of the other universes have the weird brother-sister romance thing" -- the joke being our universe is the one stuck with the Luke-and-Leia kiss.