afterlife-2
Explanation
The comic is a long multi-panel strip depicting a person arriving in the afterlife (heaven). Upon arrival, a guide welcomes them. The new arrival asks questions about what happened after their death.
The guide explains various things that occurred after the person died -- their family carried on, their legacy unfolded, and various events transpired over decades and centuries. As the person keeps asking "and then?" the guide reveals increasingly vast spans of time passing, showing how the person's life and impact became smaller and more insignificant with each passing era.
Eventually, after hearing about enormous stretches of time, the person becomes agitated. There is a physical altercation -- the newly arrived soul attacks or tackles the guide in frustration. The final panels show them on the ground, with a line suggesting something like "He was the funniest one we've had today" or a similar deflating comment.
The joke plays on the existential horror of the afterlife: even in heaven, you would have to confront the fact that the world moved on without you, that your life's work was ultimately forgotten, and that the passage of time renders everything insignificant. The humor comes from the person's escalating distress at each new revelation and their eventual violent outburst, combined with the guide's casual, almost bored reaction -- suggesting this exact emotional breakdown happens with every new arrival. The afterlife, rather than being a comforting reward, becomes an eternity of confronting your own cosmic insignificance.