Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North for August 29, 2014

Science—crushing your dreams since 1577. Or so.

Bad science. Bad, mean science.

Science friction. I’d prefer science to be frictionless, but science says frictionlessness is impossible, too. It’s a slippery slope. Or not.

Good comic

Darn that science.

Cracked.com pointed out that depending on your type of immortality, you may get stuck under a rock with no way to hack your limb off. In any case, you won’t want to be here when the sun goes supernova. Or afterward.

what if you go to prison on a life sentence?

Science: It’s what’s for dinner.

Where is some ryoma when you need it?

There was an old horror comic book story about a young man who was foretold to live to age 99. He became a daredevil for money and ended up an armless and legless trunk, burned and bandaged and eyeless, destined to live until age 99.