[[A guy with a Napoleon III mustache is consulting a newspaper and speaking with a fellow sporting epaulets.]]
FAUXPOLEON: I heard — and I don’t know if it’s true — that DOGS are just genetically modified HUMAN INFANTS. Isn’t that OUTRAGEOUS? Who DID that? What ELSE don’t we know about dogs??
E’PAUL: That is not true.
FAUXPOLEON: I don’t KNOW if it’s true or not. But just think of what it MEANS! People EXPERIMENTING on BABIES!
E’PAUL: Indeed. Good thing it’s not true!
FAUXPOLEON: You gotta ADMIT that it’s SCARY to think about!
E’PAUL: As a thought experiment? Okay. As a falsehood examined AS a falsehood on its face? Okay.
E’PAUL: As a valid piece of actual real information worth debating as if it WERE true when it is demonstrably NOT? No.
FAUXPOLEON: It MIGHT be true!
E’PAUL: It is not.
FAUXPOLEON: It might be SOMEDAY.
E’PAUL: Okay.
FAUXPOLEON: What should we DO about it?
E’PAUL: Nothing.
FAUXPOLEON: You’re so PASSIVE. You never want to take a STAND.
E’PAUL: For… for DOGS BEING INFANTS? This is the hill you want to die on, huh
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No, not FOR dogs being infants! AGAINST it! I'm AGAINST IT, haven't you been LISTENING
“It still works as a parable.”
“There must be some distinction between a parable and simply a lie”
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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