Future People

A four-panel comic. A woman kneels praying at a window in a dark room and asks, "God, what will future people think of our time?" A voice from above replies, "Hold on, let me check." God then reports: "The people of the future are very different. They are made only of bones. Their shadows are of ash. They appear to like ruins and tiny fires." In the final panel, the back of the woman's head is shown as God adds, "Not too upset about the past, though." The joke: God's reassuring tone obscures that the future people are skeletal, ash-shadowed survivors of an apocalypse the woman's era presumably caused. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the woman from behind, God cheerfully adds, "They seem to have a lot of robot pals!" — reframing the post-apocalyptic skeletons as machines, implying humanity was replaced by robots.