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(Explanation: Mephisto isn’t just in this one version, and I would argue, that the version by Goethe is much better known, so it’s weird to call him the demon from Marlowe’s version.)
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:[Over the left side of the main panel, below the middle, is a small panel partly outside the main one. The comic begins inside this panel where a devil drawn like Cueball, but with two small horns on his forehead is shown from the waist up, raising one hand while moving into the main panel. In the caption below we learn that the devil is Mephistopheles.]
 
:Mephistopheles: Mortal! I come offering a deal-
 
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:[In the main panel, with all drawings right of the smaller one, we see the mortal, Cueball, sitting at his desk typing on his laptop. Mephistopheles, now drawn in full figure, has stopped before a sign on a stick in the floor reading is out loud while pointing at it with one hand and holding the other hand in front of his mouth. The text on the sign is visible but unreadable in it self.]
 
:Cueball: Read the sign.
 
:Cueball: Read the sign.
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:Mephistopheles: <smal>"By entering this room, you agree to forfeit your own soul rather than negotiate with the mortal residing therein..." </smal>
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:Mephistopheles: Wait, you can't-
 
:Cueball: Too late.
 
:Cueball: Too late.
:Caption: Mephistopheles encounters the E.U.L.A.
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Revision as of 18:22, 24 July 2016

Faust 2.0
The only blood these contracts are signed in is from me cutting my hand trying to open the goddamn CD case.
Title text: The only blood these contracts are signed in is from me cutting my hand trying to open the goddamn CD case.

Explanation

E.U.L.A. is short for End-user license agreement, a license that software makers often attach to their software but people do not usually read. Agreement to a E.U.L.A. is assumed when a user uses the software or service that the E.U.L.A. is attached to, which has led a case where users have unknowingly actually agreed to give away their immortal souls because of a clause in a E.U.L.A. However, in the European Union, all provisions of these agreements that aren't already codified in law actually are not legally enforceable, unless they could be read and agreed to before purchase and first use.

A Faustian deal is done by someone who sells his soul to the devil for something desired in this life, a textbook example of wanting instant gratification. The mortal will get the things he wanted, but when he dies, have to suffer eternal torment. As the span of a human lifetime is an eyeblink compared to the lifetime of the universe, this is a really stupid thing to do. It is named after the folkloric character Faust, whose story has been the subject of numerous adaptations.

In this instance, Cueball turns a E.U.L.A. around on Mephistopheles, the demon Faust sells his soul to in the stories, by posting a sign saying that anyone entering the room agrees to turn over their own immortal soul rather than negotiate with Cueball for his. It is unknown whether this clause applies only to demons, or to everyone.

The title text makes reference to how easy it is to cut open one's own hand while trying to open a newly-bought CD case. Incidentally, a pen works just fine, though the blood is referencing how Satanic contracts are signed in blood.

Transcript

[Over the left side of the main panel, below the middle, is a small panel partly outside the main one. The comic begins inside this panel where a devil drawn like Cueball, but with two small horns on his forehead is shown from the waist up, raising one hand while moving into the main panel. In the caption below we learn that the devil is Mephistopheles.]
Mephistopheles: Mortal! I come offering a deal-
[In the main panel, with all drawings right of the smaller one, we see the mortal, Cueball, sitting at his desk typing on his laptop. Mephistopheles, now drawn in full figure, has stopped before a sign on a stick in the floor reading is out loud while pointing at it with one hand and holding the other hand in front of his mouth. The text on the sign is visible but unreadable in it self.]
Cueball: Read the sign.
Mephistopheles: <smal>"By entering this room, you agree to forfeit your own soul rather than negotiate with the mortal residing therein..." </smal>
Mephistopheles: Wait, you can't-
Cueball: Too late.
[Caption below the panel:]
Mephistopheles encounters the E.U.L.A.


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Discussion

It's also a reference to cd sleeve seals that say "by tearing this seal you agree to the enclosed license agreement" as it is obvious that mephistopheles has already entered the room 173.245.53.163 18:19, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

What if I cut around the seal? --Alexbuzzbee (talk) 04:14, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
I did things like that from time to time, and opened the CD case on the other end, etc. So far noone noticed. --Lupo (talk) 07:38, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Since angels and demons are pure spirit, and have no body, the mortal now owns the whole demon. 172.68.58.191 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)