‘BACKYARD SCIENCE’ [OC]

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- - - This is a comic strip - - - Lilith is sitting comfortably in her living room, drinking sherry and talking to a friend on the phone. Lilith: …SO EDWARD AND I WENT TO THIS LOVELY RESTAURANT AND … All of a sudden, everything turns negative. Lilith: OH FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE. Then, everything becomes oversaturated. Lilith gets up and walks out the backdoor. Lilith: HOLD ON, PATRICIA. Lilith walks purposefully through the backyard. Suddenly, gravity disappears for a few seconds and Lilith and objects around her float around. Something else changes and everything becomes spherical. Lilith rolls through the backyard. Gravity returns, stronger than ever. Lilith is squashed and she drags herself across the lawn. Trees bend. The moon’s orbit becomes smaller. The curvature of space changes, warping Lilith and the garden into a weird shape. The light’s refractive index gets out of wack. Lilith reaches the garden shed. Lilith opens the door. Her husband is doing some science experiments. Lilith: EDWARD! STOP MUCKING ABOUT WITH THE CONSTANTS OF NATURE! Edward: SORRY, DEAR.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/49650270

He’s playing with forces he doesn’t understand. ☝️😤

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I don’t understand. Can someone help me, please?

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The inventor in his shed is messing about with the fabric of reality. His wife objects

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Edward, the woman’s significant other, is a backyard scientist.

He is somehow able, with his rudimentary equipment, to modify reality itself, demonstrated by the bizarre alterations of the woman and her surroundings in the intermediate panels as she attempts to get to the shed in the back yard.

She then goes into his shed and tells him off.

Part of the joke is that reality goes through bizarre and unexpected changes. The other part of the joke is that a man with the power of a god is being told off by his relatively powerless wife.

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