c/comicstrips · by sundray@lemmus.org · 143d

Good Fortune

::: spoiler Transcript:

Panel 1: (Cat and Girl walking through the desert.) Girl: "It's up to us to imagine a better future."
Panel 2: (A large "wheel of fortune" goes rolling past in the opposite direction.) Wheel of Fortune: "AAAH!"
Panel 3: (CRASH) Girl: "Was that the wheel of--"
Panel 4: Off-panel screaming: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Panel 5: (The screaming continues, as a vast herd of fortune-tellers carrying crystal balls go running past Cat and Girl in the opposite direction.)
Panel 6: (We see that the Wheel of Fortune and the fortune-tellers have flung themselves off a cliff, as the screaming continues.)
Panel 7: (Cat and Girl look worried.)
Panel 8: Girl: "That can't be good." (A herd of screaming fortune cookies is heading towards Cat and Girl.) :::

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11 Comments

qualia@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 143d (3 replies)

Three references detected to "fortune": wheel of, tellers, and cookies. All headed over a cliff. I prefer to interpret it as alluding to the tragic loss of a positive-sum fortune for society as a whole by those in power manipulating the system to personally profit off of workers. ️🙎

I'd actually watch Wheel of Fortune if they mic'd the wheel.

Edit: Just realized the transcript explains this all already so I'm dumb.

gole@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 143d

You got it though, which is great!

Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 143d (1 reply)

Man, I was on wheel of fortune, wheel of ??? and wheel of cheese.

P1k1e@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 141d

I thought the wheel of time. Took me so long...well at least till I saw the fortune cookies

Photonic@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 143d

A series of unfortunate events

Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 143d (3 replies)

So tl;dr: The future is shit?