teleporter-3
Explanation
This comic tackles the classic philosophical problem of teleportation and personal identity. A character asks whether the teleporter actually kills you, and the operator initially confirms "you technically die." Then the operator elaborates: the badge says "teleporter" but what actually happens is that a duplicate is printed at the destination, complete with memories of teleporting. They then flash a bright light in your eyes and use "a strong electromagnetic field to painlessly convert you to plasma."
The final panel shows the character being teleported (or rather, disintegrated), and the operator cheerfully says "Also, you looked... I can't tell if you're joking." The comic explores the teleportation paradox -- if a perfect copy of you is created elsewhere while the original is destroyed, is it really "you" that arrives? The horror is in the casual corporate rebranding of disintegration as "teleportation," satirizing how language can be used to make terrifying processes sound routine. It also plays on Star Trek-style teleporter anxieties that have long been a staple of science fiction philosophy.