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Cat and Girl by Dorothy Gambrell

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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[โ€“] qualia@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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. ๏ธ๐Ÿ™Ž

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.

[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

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

[โ€“] gole@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

You got it though, which is great!