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Explanation
This comic plays on the tension between religious devotion and social convention, specifically the concept of perspective.
In the first panel, someone asks a man how he can stay so happy while working a boring desk job. He replies that it is "all about perspective." He then explains his perspective: he has been alive for over 170 years, has taken part in a specific blood ritual, and is working to summon Satan's kingdom upon Earth. The joke is that "perspective" is usually invoked as a feel-good mindfulness platitude (e.g., "be grateful for what you have"), but here it is taken literally to a darkly comic extreme -- the man's positive attitude comes from being an immortal Satanist on a mission.
In the next panel, an HR representative tells him he needs to attend a mandatory workplace sensitivity course on Thursday, to which he responds with genuine enthusiasm: "Love your attitude, Hartmier!" The humor here is the contrast between the horrifying supernatural revelation and the utterly banal corporate response. HR does not react to the Satan worship at all -- they just want him to attend a sensitivity training. This satirizes corporate culture's tendency to reduce everything to bureaucratic process, even in the face of genuinely alarming revelations. It also plays on the idea that in modern office life, summoning the forces of darkness is less noteworthy than missing a mandatory HR session.
The final panel's caption -- "Good. Goooood. The time draws ever closer" -- adds an additional layer of comedy by implying the dark forces are progressing through the medium of corporate compliance.