1 Serron: This is insane!
1 Iki Piki: We need to preserve events that have already happened.
2 Iki Piki: Help me extract the organs from our past selves and dump our bodies in the garbage skip in the alley.
3 Iki Piki: Then we'll leave the organs right here in a life support case so the past you can come back in and find them.
4 Iki Piki: Then we go to the hospital and ask to have our organs re-implanted.
4 Serron: My mistake. That's a perfectly sensible plan.

Looking at this strip now after I've made it, I realise that it's possible to read the punchline in a completely different way to the way I intended it when I wrote it.

But it's still funny if read that way.

So cool! Whichever of the two possible, and very different, ways you read Serron's final line is okay!

(Now I wonder how long it will take you to work out the other way of reading it...)

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2025-07-31 Rerun commentary: I really don't miss the days of shooting multiple shots with the camera held still but the figures in different positions, so I could composite them to produce this effect of copies in the same image. That third panel is giving me the willies now just looking at it and how much effort I must have put into it.

Because the camera needed to stay still for each pair of shots going into a single frame, I couldn't just put the figures in one place and shoot the four frames and then move them and shoot the other half of the four frames. I had to keep the camera still and move the figures for each frame before going on to the next. So where those figures are lying on the table, I had to place them there—hopefully in exactly the same position each time—four separate times.