Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 09, 2025

In general, high quality comix are not supposed to reuse a frame’s image, mostly redraw. But this time, the first and the last frames SHOULD be identical.

On the level

According to probability, things are likely to reoccur over time instead of something new.

E.g., if you pulled names out of a hat, say 100 names, several people will have their name repeated before everybody’s name is picked.

It’s déjà vu all over again!

It seems to me I’ve seen this storyline before on this strip. I wonder.

Wiley could run this comic periodically and see if people notice.

So are you telling me that the last 2 weeks was because some gamer on a different dimension installed some poorly written DLC?

In the multiverse, aren’t there Many instances? Or is this like Groundhog Day?

This is brilliant

Is there such a thing as déjà vu of a déjà vu? Because sometimes I’ll get a sense that I’m about to experience déjà vu, but as soon as I realize that, it doesn’t occur.

i… i will think about this tomorrow.

I have experienced nIb’poH

I’m certain that at least one well known Cosmologist will agree with this cartoon’s premise.

“There’s a glitch in the Matrix”

The whole Universe is a Cosmic Toy Balloon that a Child Deity is blowing into, expanding until it pops … or He releases it to sputter through the Ether.

“Nothing is real.”

“Strawberry Fields Forever”, The Beatles

Is it possible that “our universe” is just a gnat on the backside of some large creature in another universe that…, oh, so and so forth.

The Universe has exploded and imploded billions of times and everything plays out the same way everytime including the Earth.

It’s only natural we should experience déjà vu.

Vuja de, I ain’t never seen something like this before

Deja-who? – the feeling you’ve forgotten that person’s name before.

Deja-moo – the feeling that you’ve waded through this bullsh1t before.

Deja-boo – the feeling you’ve seen that Halloween costume before.

Deja-goo – getting slimed again

Deja-glue – the feeling that you’ve been stuck like this before.

Deja-jew – getting circumcised twice.

Deja-loo – another trip to the bathroom.

Deja-new – the feeling you’ve never seen this before

Deja-pooh – the feeling you’ve seen that bear before

Deja_roo – the feeling you’ve seen that bear’s sidekick before

Deja_stew – leftovers from a previous dinner.

Deja-too – redundancy

Deja_woo – dating the same woman twice

Deja-view – watching reruns on TV

Deja-brew – having another beer.

Deja-mew – I’ve seen that cat before

Deja-pew – sitting in the same place in church.

Deja-flu – a relapse

Deja-ewe – I’ve seen that sheep before

Deja-hue – I’ve seen that color before.

Deja-do-do – being in deep sh1t again

starting now, deja vu will never be the same…

So, is Danae level 1 or level 300 and something?

“…if this was the Matrix, the food would be better.”

?? source??

This is very interesting. For me, I consider how God might be reviewing life.

Deja vu all over again.

I am sick of that Danae, there used to be a lot of funny characters, like the bears, Piere of the north, captain Eddy etc. Now it seem that we can’t get away from that brat, well at least the horse is funny.

Pastis and Wiley ?

We had a little snow here on the Southcoast…I feel like a disappointed bride on her wedding night.

Was promised nine inches and only got three.

I always figured that we were God’s middle-school science project.

that darn Trelane

That theory might explain deja vu, but no theory can possibly explain Cap’n Eddie!

I was expecting Lars to have a part in this … (not disappointed though)

This toon should have been on groundhog day.

What if our entire universe is a lab experiment and one day, the lab workers come in and flip on the lab lights? our night sky gets bright?

Interesting theory on the video game player controlling our existence. I have a different one. It’s 8 PM on a Sunday night and God is busy gaming with his friends when him mother calls out, “Is your ‘Heaven and Earth’ project finished? It’s due tomorrow, you know.”

The whole thing was slapped together in about 45 minutes; which explains why things are as phuqued up as they are. BTW, the ‘Heaven and Earth’ project (for which he received a D-) is currently sitting in a shoe-box in the back of his closet.

Good one! I wonder if the Alien overlords kids have the same depression and lack of connection to others that our children today have.

Wait a minute, I was just here earlier.

Today’s Calvin And Hobbes rerun has a very similar theme.

At least we get to hear a great CSNY album

If this is a simulation, we need to yank out the cartridge and blow on it a couple of times to get the crud out!

Well, it makes as much sense as religion does.

if Yogi Berra were alive to read this, he’d be rolling over in his grave, again

‘They’

“Is all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream?” ~ E. A. Poe, paraphrased …

The Squire of Gothos – Star Trek TOS

Brilliant. (insert applause here.)

Then there’s the non-linearity of time theory.

Last scene in Men in Black 2 We’re just a marble in a larger constructs bag. My opinion we are standing on an electron that is part of a sodium atom in a larger construct. As good a theory as any other.

We could be an experiment run by mice.

While we’re discussing what is and what may be, I’d like to recommend a short story; “The Nine Billion Names of God” by Arthur C. Clarke in 1953.

One of those stories which is still in the mind. a 100 years after I read it. (feels like a 100)

Part of me thinks the whole concept of the world being a simulation is bunk.

The other part of me keeps encountering people in real life who seem to be running on minimal resources, with no processing power or memory. You could ask them to tell you something as basic as when a timer beeps, and they’d be too busy staring at their phone to notice it go off. Then they’d tell you they didn’t know the alarm sound meant the timer had concluded.

I knew it .. I knew it!! WE’RE ALL IN A TIME-LOOP … or perhaps just a figment of someone’s imagination. Don’t know which I prefer. Or either.

That’s gold, Wiley!

The second Trump administration, only worse.

99% of what you experience would bore the heck out of anyone. This is a horribly written game.

Check out Robert Heinlein’s story “The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag”