best-2
Original: best-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Person (looking upward, hands raised): Dear Lord, is this the best of all possible universes?
Panel 2:
God (offscreen voice): There are infinity possible universes, dummy.
Panel 3:
Person: So... what's the biggest number in infinity? Is it my number? Is it me?
Panel 4:
God: That's not the game.
Panel 5:
Person: True. "Biggest" would at least have a definition, unlike "best."
God: You could've...
Panel 6:
God: I did this the first quadrillion times.
Votey:
God (from a speech balloon, no character shown): By the way, I don't exist. Chew on that for a while, loser.
Person (looking upward, hands raised): Dear Lord, is this the best of all possible universes?
Panel 2:
God (offscreen voice): There are infinity possible universes, dummy.
Panel 3:
Person: So... what's the biggest number in infinity? Is it my number? Is it me?
Panel 4:
God: That's not the game.
Panel 5:
Person: True. "Biggest" would at least have a definition, unlike "best."
God: You could've...
Panel 6:
God: I did this the first quadrillion times.
Votey:
God (from a speech balloon, no character shown): By the way, I don't exist. Chew on that for a while, loser.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A small person stands with hands raised toward the sky, praying. Person: "Dear Lord, is this the best of all possible universes?" A disembodied voice (God) replies, "There are infinity possible universes, dummy." The person, latching onto the math, asks: "So... what's the biggest number in infinity? Is it my number? Is it me?" God: "That's not the game." Person: "True. 'Biggest' would at least have a definition, unlike 'best.'" God begins, "You could've..." then cuts himself off: "I did this the first quadrillion times." The joke: God is exhausted from having had this same pedantic theological argument countless times. Votey (aftercomic): a single panel showing only an empty speech balloon, with God's parting line: "By the way, I don't exist. Chew on that for a while, loser."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.