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An angry red head wearing a purple shirt with the X-Men logo on the breast knocks over Death and grabs him by the robe with tears in her eyes. She points to the claw machine Death was playing which is currently picking up a doll of Sir Patrick Stewart.
Dot: One… Just take ONE fascist billionaire. Or is this some kind of sick game to you?!
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I’m going to be quite direct here:
The fascist billionaires aren’t old enough. If you want one to die, kill one. Commit some violence. Make them go the way of Charlie Kirk.
matt Kaufman
Need the pull bin to be full of recognizable characters like Musk, the Waltons, Murdoch, and Trump, and the gravestone graphics to have the names of Dolly, Sir Patrick, Tim Curry, and the like.
Trump is in there….
Where? They look like random creations, like eyepatches and stuff. I don’t see an orange tan and bad combover.
Bottom middle. Blonde combover and the face is scribbled orange
Ah, you’re right. Didn’t register for some reason. “X” marks the spot.
Are the Waltons recognisable at all? As for Murdoch and Trump I guess a bunch of old farts, and one of them orange. But would an orange old guy be investigated for threats against potus?
You’d only need a few recognizable ones for people to get the drift. Musk, trump, Bezos, and Thiel would be likely to work.
What about Charlie Kirk?
He wasn’t 2026
Oh wow, it’s been an entire year since then. Wild.
Sorry, the comic didn’t mention a year but I see the text does.
He also wasn’t a billionaire.
He didn’t live to see 80
At least he took Lindsay Graham and, effectively, Mitch McConnell
Mitch is still occupying that seat and votes, Weekend at Bernie’s style.
He died the way he lived. Being an obstructionist.
Rofl wow you’re right, it is weekend at berries.
🤢
And then his sister inherited the crown because Democracy
“I? KILL? said Death, obviously offended. CERTAINLY NOT. PEOPLE GET KILLED, BUT THAT’S THEIR BUSINESS. I JUST TAKE OVER FROM THEN ON. AFTER ALL, IT’D BE A BLOODY STUPID WORLD IF PEOPLE GOT KILLED WITHOUT DYING, WOULDN’T IT?” -Pratchett
Gnu sir terry
I made a little firefox extension to collect the clacks headers some websites use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clacks-collector/
Unfortunately there aren’t many that do, but my websites do, and they include sir Patrick Stewart since yesterday :)
“A man is not dead while is name is still spoken.”
I just finished rereading Going Postal a month ago. :)
I actually haven’t read that one yet but I’ve been going through the Discworld series by subseries as recommended by Discworld Emporium, and I have been enjoying his work a lot. Very much looking forward to reading the origins of the Clacks.
Shitty copper.
Ea-nāṣir will live forever.
GNU STP
Billionaires have good healthcare unfortunately
I mean, I get your point. But Sir Patrick Stewart was also insanely loaded. And even at his advanced age probably had better healthcare than most of us. Still. Sad.
Very sadly, there’s only so much even the best healthcare can do with what ended Patrick Stewart’s life. Some things just can’t be made better.
Two things are certain in this world, death and taxes.
Unless you’re a billionaire then only death and a few of them are trying very hard to keep that at bay for as long as possible .
Didn’t one of those bio hacking nuts give himself a terminal condition a month or so ago?
I don’t know if he gave it to himself, but one of them has a terminal auto immune disease. Bryan Johnson.
We should start calling them Proto-mephs
Do you mean meths, short for Methuselahs?
Its an altered-carbon bit, yes.
2 of the 3 Hunt brothers are gone. They were a nasty bunch in their day.
The only Hunt Brothers I’m aware of are the delicious gas station pizza guys.
They contributed a lot to conservative republicans a while back.
Mike and Harry K.?
I dunno chief, Patrick was getting pretty old. Nothing lasts forever, our heroes need to move on and rest.
Mr. Spock: A Vulcan would face such a loss without tears.
Young Spock: How?
Mr. Spock: By understanding every life comes to an end when time demands it. Loss of life is to be mourned, but only if the life was wasted.
–Star Trek: TAS, Yesteryear
Yes, but our villains, too, need to be defeated. By heroes, by time, or by their own hubris.
When those fascists finally die nobody at their funeral will have truly loved them, and the world will not collectively mourn the loss of someone who made it better.
While I get it, I’d rather appreciate these people and the lives they lived.
The ones like Dolly and Patrick Stewart lived good lives that inspired us all for the better. They reached a good old age surrounded by loved ones before passing on. We would all be lucky to be half as fortunate, and our collective grief serves as a testament to their character.
Those billionaire funerals will be just networking events for the rest of them.
The fascists funerals will be packed, but most will be there to verify that they are actually dead, and then to party.
There’s a great book by John Scalzi called Starter Villain. It starts off with a pretty normal guy being asked to preside over his estranged uncle’s funeral. It gets pretty funny when every guest who attends is just there to make sure the body is in fact dead and is really the uncle. I was surprised with how much I enjoyed the book.
Hopefully they will be open casket.
The casket:
Death: it is YOUR job, not mine to fix YOUR problems, not mine. But of course all you’re going to do is demand random deities to make things better for you.
right omg. like guillotines weren’t invented and resistance never existed.
believe it or not, these billionaire fascists are all made of meat and blood just like the rest of us.
I dunno if this would be Jean’s reaction, per se. Rogue? Yes. Jean? Maybe.
Jean would probably go Phoenix on his ass and demand that he give him back.
The red head in the comic is the authors self insert
Who just happens to have an X-MEN logo on her shirt?
Because Patrick Stewart was in the X-Men, and the subject of the comic is the death of Patrick Stewart (he’s the doll in the claw in the background). Probably a safe guess the author is also a fan of Jean Grey as she has red hair as well.
Maybe the Grim Reaper is preparing a Christmas miracle?
Champagne bottles ready
“they stopped trusting submarines and never liked going to space.”
billionaires have lobbied death for millennia.
kinda sucks that the proletariat is too dumb to lobby back their guillotine.😔French, Indonesian, Spanish, Belgians, Burmese, Thai, and Italians are excused.
Italians aren’t excused either, people here fucking hate protests for no reason at all, welp, at least in north italy
You can’t take Elon The Musky Husky? He smells so bad.
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