entropy-3
Explanation
This comic is a theological and philosophical discussion about entropy and ethics. In the opening panel, a character addresses God, asking why there is an "arrow of time" -- why can't we "unbreak an egg or unburn a log" and why everything moves "toward more and more muddle."
God considers several responses: suggesting the character could figure it out ("imagine doing a Sudoku that's already solved"), pointing to a philosophical problem ("if you could reverse entropy at will, there would be no basis for ethics"), and finally noting that past attempts to give sentient beings the ability to reverse entropy resulted in them immediately using it to "make giant scary death guns" and threatening each other, leading to murder.
The joke escalates through these panels: God has a perfectly reasonable physics-based explanation, then a philosophical one, and then finally reveals the darkly comedic practical reason -- when this power was actually tried, the beings immediately weaponized it. The punchline comes when God says "it started that way" in response to the observation that the current situation is "pretty bad."
The comic satirizes both the philosophical "problem of evil" (why does God allow suffering?) and humanity's tendency to misuse any powerful technology. It suggests that entropy and the arrow of time are essentially safety features God installed because sentient beings cannot be trusted with the ability to reverse physical processes.