More Accurate
by Jeff
Image text: We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies. At some point there, we left the present and entered the future.
This is a comic referencing the Terminator series , in which a super-intelligent machine from the future time travels back in time to kill Sarah Connor.
However, we currently have robots that are able to attack specific locations and targets. Originally, unmanned aerial vehicles were only used for surveillance and reconnaissance. But, now more than ever, they are used for attacks. One thing that keeps us short of a Terminator scenario is that most of the unmanned aerial vehicles are either pre-programmed or flown remotely by members of the military. Still, the image text is correct, the future is here.
Locke and Demosthenes
by Mike
Image Text: Dear Peter Wiggin: This letter is to inform you that you have received enough upvotes on your reddit comments to become president of the world. Please be at the UN tomorrow at 8:00 sharp.
This comic references the Orson Scott Card novel Ender's Game. [SPOILER] In it, Ender's higher-than-average intelligence siblings, Valentine Wiggin and Peter Wiggin decide to make a move for power on earth by posting contrasting opinions of the Formic War on their version of the internet. They used the pseudonyms Locke and Demosthenes respectively and eventually coerced the trust of the entire planet by playing their posts against each other. This lead to Peter gaining control of the free world.
[EXTRA SPOILER] Peter is a borderline sociopath and kills that squirrel.