[ID: a 9 panel comic depcting a scene between John/The Hunger and Merle

Panels 1 and 2 are white text on a black background that reads: Perhaps for some people who think about it, there is nothing but eternal oblivion. The eternal erasure of your consciousness. Or for some it’s eternal life and their God’s glorious kingdom or eternal cycling through all the inhabitants of their world. Any of them are options, Merle. Any of them are just- erasure, or contentment or revival, any of them are fine as abstract concepts.

Panel 3 is Kermit the Frog in a black suit and tie meant to be John Hunger. He is standing in an oval/vaguely eye shaped window staring out the window. the room behind him red and purple with the faint image of stars. Kermit/John is saying “But eternally, Merle, eternally? You can’t possibly conceive the length of eternity, Merle. I have.”

Panel 4: Kermit/John from behind, still looking out the window. Now there’s a chess board and conference table in the foreground. John says, “It’s maddening and it’s hopeless but it’s this burden we’re all saddled with from the moment of our creation. It’s a finish line that, by definition, will never arive.”

Panel 5: A close up from behind with John’s reflection in the window. Now he says, “It stretches forever and ever, it’s too ambivalent to even taunt those trapped behind it.”

Panel 6: a shot of Kermit/John’s hands, green with the fingers outstretched against a mostly purple sky. John continues “Existence Merle- life Merle- is… horrible.”

Panel 7: His hands, now balled into fists and shaking. “To exist, to live is horrible.”

Panel 8: Kermit Merle, with a red jacket and white hair/beard, at the other end of the conference table. There’s a chess board in front of him. John stands facing away from him at the other end of the table. The table and chairs are made up of a pale blue galaxy. Merle says, “I… I don’t thing I want to hang out with you anymore John”

Panel 9: a sketchy drawing of Kermit/John against a white background. He stands with one leg slightly crossed in front of the other and his hands outstretched. There are yellow, green, red, and blue kermit eyes floating. The text reads, “The Ascendant.”

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