#487; In which One has to Wonder

Comic Transcripts

WALTER: Huh, look at that guy. Looks kind of like an older version of you.
JIM-BOB: Whenever I see people like that, I always wonder who they are.

JIM-BOB: Are we related? Maybe they’re some COUSIN I’ve never met?
Maybe that’s my REAL DAD, you know? Maybe the jerk married to my Mom STOLE me as a baby.
Maybe that guy is the KING of some far-off country, come to CLAIM me and make me a PRINCE.
WALTER: I take a DIFFERENT view. I always imagine those people to be ME FROM THE FUTURE, sent back to WATCH OVER me in the PAST.

WALTER: They never SAY anything, ’cause they don’t want me to KNOW. It might jeopardize their very EXISTENCE in the future!
But I will RECALL this moment, when I am THEM, and know I won’t HAVE to say a single word.
Seeing folks who might be Future-Me is REASSURING. It lets me believe that behind the scenes, things are quietly being arranged for my life to progress successfully.
And no matter how dark things seem, I’ll be FINE–because someday I’ll make it to the point at which I’ll go back in time.

JIM-BOB: See, I like YOUR thing better.
WALTER: REALLY? All things considered, YOURS is more likely to be real.

JIM-BOB: Of course NEITHER is REAL. But in YOURS, the fact that the stranger walks away without so much as a glance is PART of it.
If he SAID anything, he’d WRECK it.
In MINE, when the stranger walks away, that ENDS it. It’s NOT REAL.
It’s OVER.

JIM-BOB: As far as YOU know, you’re visited by your future self EVERY DAY.
But no KING has ever come to save ME.

[[A biplane flies low over a lake.]]

[[In a spectacular hall, the bearded man in the background during WALTER and JIM-BOB’s conversation meets with the QUEEN.]]
QUEEN: Did you LOCATE the LONG-LOST PRINCE?
BEARDSLEY {{Why not?}}: Yeah, but he was sort of a whiny emo bitch, so I said FORGET it.

#487; In which One has to Wonder transcribed by in

WALTER: Huh, look at that guy. Looks kind of like an older version of you.
JIM-BOB: Whenever I see people like that, I always wonder who they are.

JIM-BOB: See, I like YOUR thing better.
WALTER: REALLY? All things considered, YOURS is more likely to be real.

JIM-BOB: As far as YOU know, you’re visited by your future self EVERY DAY.
But no KING has ever come to save ME.

[[A biplane flies low over a lake.]]

#487; In which One has to Wonder transcribed by in

WALTER: Huh, look at that guy. Looks kind of like an older version of you.
JIM-BOB: Whenever I see people like that, I always wonder who they are.

JIM-BOB: Are we related? Maybe they're some COUSIN I've never met?
Maybe that's my REAL DAD, you know? Maybe the jerk married to my Mom STOLE me as a baby.
Maybe that guy is the KING of some far-off country, come to CLAIM me and make me a PRINCE.
WALTER: I take a DIFFERENT view. I always imagine those people to be ME FROM THE FUTURE, sent back to WATCH OVER me in the PAST.

WALTER: They never SAY anything, 'cause they don't want me to KNOW. It might jeopardize their very EXISTENCE in the future!
But I will RECALL this moment, when I am THEM, and know I won't HAVE to say a single word.
Seeing folks who might be Future-Me is REASSURING. It lets me believe that behind the scenes, things are quietly being arranged for my life to progress successfully.
And no matter how dark things seem, I'll be FINE--because someday I'll make it to the point at which I'll go back in time.

JIM-BOB: See, I like YOUR thing better.
WALTER: REALLY? All things considered, YOURS is more likely to be real.

JIM-BOB: Of course NEITHER is REAL. But in YOURS, the fact that the stranger walks away without so much as a glance is PART of it.
If he SAID anything, he'd WRECK it.
In MINE, when the stranger walks away, that ENDS it. It's NOT REAL.
It's OVER.

JIM-BOB: As far as YOU know, you're visited by your future self EVERY DAY.
But no KING has ever come to save ME.

[[A biplane flies low over a lake.]]

[[In a spectacular hall, the bearded man in the background during WALTER and JIM-BOB's conversation meets with the QUEEN.]]
QUEEN: Did you LOCATE the LONG-LOST PRINCE?
BEARDSLEY {{Why not?}}: Yeah, but he was sort of a whiny emo bitch, so I said FORGET it.

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