Currently showing comics 110 – 129

  1. 110
    A laptop screen shows a Zoom meeting in progress with all of the Lumped In board members. From top left to bottom right, The Aaron and the Ideas Man, A man with the handle Agree 2 Disagree is tied to a cross blindfolded and gagged, A robotic Cylon from Battlestar Galactica named Imperious Leader stands in front of a window with the space ship visible, a mustachioed man that looks similar in cartoon style as the Ideas Man with the handle Confidence Man stands in front of a fake looking beach scene, A skull squid monster with tentacles in a dark space with the handle Soul Void, A parody of Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse avatar in front of an early Metaverse background, A normal view of real life goblin Marc Andreesen, A dead skeleton in a suit with the avatar Old Money, Pyramid Head from Silent Hill video games holding a giant sword, Wario holding a Lumped In coffee cup, Hal 9000 from the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey, and Peter Thiel connected to a blood transfusion machine with a young man in the background having his blood drained. The Ideas Man says, Aaron here also brought to us a brand new growth opportunity! Like other divine revelations in tech, he was walking around Menlo Park when suddenly it hit him...
  1. 111
    Aaron and the Ideas Man are on a Zoom meeting in front of a laptop. Aaron finished the sentence from the Ideas Man in the previous panel saying, It was a Waymo. I was crossing El Camino Real blacked out on K. Aaron holds up a tablet news article from SFGate with the headline, K-hold Kills A-hole.
  1. 112
    A laptop screen displays a deck cover slide with the title A Vision Underworld with an image of Aaron in Hades staring up at a sign that says Suffer in Fabulous Las Hades, Underworld that imitates the famous Welcome to Las Vegas sign next to a giant mound of skulls. The Ideas Man says to the Board, Where some saw eternal atonement, Aaron here saw opportunity... Our greatest Climbers and Achievers - none content to serve down below. A hooved devil stabs an unkown person with a pitchfork in the background and two people writhe in flames in a Lake of Fire.
  1. 113
    Aaron continues to the next slide stating, Our most profound thinkers... Showing a slide on the laptop screen displaying Socrates in a boiling pot over a flame surrounded by grimacing devils covering their face or plugging their ears. Their positioning is a parody of the painting The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David. In the background, where the mournful woman in the background waves at the viewer in the original painting, a smirking devil gives the viewer the middle finger.
  1. 114
    Aaron continues to the next slide continuing, ...Leaders in Diplomacy... Showing a slide on the laptop screen displaying Henry Kissinger, who was a piece of shit, in a wheelchair with a smug look on his face shooting devils below with a machine gun on top of a mountain ridge. The devils and Kissinger are arranged in a parody of the Doom video game cover art.
  1. 115
    Aaron continues to the next slide continuing, ...Business Masterminds... Showing a slide on the laptop screen displaying Stockton Rush, late CEO of OceanGate and bad submarine designer, standing proudly before a technical drawing of a submarine labeled OceanGate Hades 4, with numbers 2 and 3 crossed out. The submarine drawing shows 3 devils crammed into a bisected submarine section around a cramped human operator and a stupidly placed toilet labeled, Shitter. An annoyed devil impales an unphased Rush while the wreckage of a submarine lays in the background.
  1. 116
    Aaron continues to the next slide continuing, ...And it's not just VIPs... All legacy employees are targets for growth... Showing a slide on the laptop screen with the title AI Onboarding Tools for Legacy Staff, displaying a rock monolith with the name Otho M, Turn Fire Spit Crank, Dawn of Third Moon, Bound for Eternity. An arrow shows a browser window with an AI generated LinkedIn profile of Otho Melkor, with the title of VP Fire Spit Operations. The location is listed as Hades - LP Suite, and the date range of employment is listed as 70,000,000,000 BC to Present. The About section summarizes Otho's experience as Proven leader with eons of direct experience in involuntary rotational thermal discomfort atonement.
  1. 117
    Aaron continues to the next slide continuing, "Insights from industry leaders will drive user engagement". A screenshot of a LumpedIn article with the headline, Body and Mind The Flaying Market is Evolving Fast - Is Your Career Ready? With an image of a MindFlayer Illithid giving a TED talk.
  1. 118
    Later, The Ideas Man starts to wrap up the meeting by saying to the Board, "...If there are no other questions, This All-Star managed to schedule a site visit for our C.O.O.". The Ideas Man proudly wraps his arm around Aaron while smiling.
  1. 119
    Aaron and the C.O.O, a skullshaped squid monster with a bloodied hook for a hand walk towards a partially excavated ancient wall and entrance way. The entrance is covered in ornate symbols of cryptic hellish iconography inset into the framing. Inside the door opening is a smaller modern glass frontage with a Lumped In logo and the word Hell on the awning.
  1. 120
    After entering the glass entrance way, Aaron and the C.O.O. walk down a narrow stone hallway towards a large wooden doubledoor with a circle pentagram and demon emblem hung above it. In a split screen, Aaron pulls on the ornate double door handle with skulls impaled on the spike shaped handle. Snakes coil around the handle connectors to a plate covered in demonic symbols and totems.
  1. 121
    A mysterious hooded demonesque creature stands in the dark open doorway. Mountains are visible in on the horizon. Holds two wide and short square boxes in his claws.
  1. 122
    The man steps forward into the light holding two pizza boxes to reveal that he is Otho M, from the LumpedIn presentation. A hand holds a phone indicating that Otho M is delivering an Uber Eats order.
  1. 123
    A tattooed man in a beanie holding two pizza boxes smiles as he walks into the kitchen towards his partner who's laying out two plates. The man says, "Their pizza is just ok, but the dipping sticks are the best I've ever had."
  1. 124
    The tattooed man in a beanie opens the one of the pizza boxes and has a shocked expression on his face. His girlfriend looks inquisitively as she holds a plate with a slice of pizza.
  1. 125
    The tattooed man and his girlfriend stand shocked and distraught looking into the pizza box at his dipping sticks. The man's arms are extended outward in agony. He exclaims, "Aww... Did they forget the fucking ranch?!". An evil looking demon pizza chef winks at the viewer while giving an OK hand sign underneath the Pizza Demon logo.
  1. 126
    Otho bikes in the dark with a dumb smile on his face. A few residential houses are seen to the right with mountains and plains to the left. A car approaches from behind Otho at speed with bright headlight beams illuminating him.
  1. 127
    Otho is rammed from behind by the approaching vehicle in the darkness of the night. He flips over the hood as his back tire is crushed. The two bright headlight beams illuminate the dark street.
  1. 128
    Otho hangs upside down on the cracked windshield of the car that rammed him. Betty, an elderly woman demon with horns and skull earrings who is driving the vehicle screams as she's surprised by the collision, "Alexa, call my grandso- Jesus Christ!"
  1. 129
    Jesus Christ answers the phone on his airpods as he sits in a booth drinking coffee at Winky's Diner from Mulholland Drive. "Betty? You OK girl?" he asks. Herb and Dan sit in the booth behind him. A couple booths down Lil Floofy, a happy blob monster, eats his breakfast.