Five-Minute Comics Part 2
Five-Minute Comics: Part 2
Because of a family illness, instead of regular comics, this week I'll be sharing some strips that I drew as part of a game I played with friends.  Each comic had to be written and drawn in five minutes.
--Randall
Comic #1 [A ninja is hiding under a diving board as a man runs along it.]
[The man jumps on the end of the board and hits the ninja in the head, knocking him into the pool.]
[The ninja floats in the water. A bullet passes through the man's head.] thwipp
[The man is lying bleeding on the diving board, the ninja is still unconscious on the pool.]
[A sniper is at the top of a hill. The sign in front of the hill says "Grassy Knoll".]
[Someone is pointing at the diagram of the previous panel.] Off-panel voice: Wait, so what does this have to do with 9/11, again? Cueball: I said I'm getting there!
Comic #2 [Cueball is studying Megan.] Cueball: You look different.
Cueball: You have this... glow about you.
[They stare in silence.]
[A baby falls out of Megan.] plop
Comic #3 Megan: Cogito ergo cogito. Off-panel voice: Playing it safe, huh?
Comic #4 [Two children dressed up as ghosts are standing in front of Megan at a door, each carrying a bag.] Children: Trick or treat!
[Megan doesn't move.]
Child: Um hi. Why are you just standing there? Other Child: Candy?
[Another silent panel as the children stare up at Megan.]
[The second child looks in their bag.] Other Child: Oh God, my bag of candy.
Other Child: It's filling with blood. Child: We should go.
Comic #5 [A jet is flying across the panel.] Pilot: Bail out! Bail out! Bail out!
[The pilot and copilot have buckets, and are bailing water out of the cockpit.]
Comic #6 The following is a dramatization of real events.
[Cueball is at a counter, with several jars.] Cueball: AAAAAAAAAAAAA I'm making a sandwich! AAAAAAAAAA!
Comic #7 [Two people are carrying lightsabers and wearing robes.] Cueball: Oh God, my eyes won't focus right! And your robe looks... really dirty! My blacklightsaber was not a success.
Comic #8 [Cueball is standing.] Cueball: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury... Off-screen voice: It seems we happen to be all ladies, actually. Cueball: ...in that case, this defense is going to appear extremely ill-advised.
Comic #9 [Darth Vader is sitting between two people, at a table.] Cueball: Your sad devotion to that ancient religion hasn't helped you conjur up the stolen data tapes, or given you— Darth Vader: HEY. Wicca is a legitimate belief system!
[Darth Vader is drawing a pentagram on the table.] Cueball: What are you— Darth Vader: Putting a hex on your family.

This is the second of three "five-minute comics" Randall posted during a week in November 2010. The introduction to the comic explains everything you need to know about the circumstances behind it.
Randall obviously made more than three of these five minutes comics, and one of them was published later, for a short period of time by a mistake, but an android xkcd browser picked it up while it was on-line and saved it. Since then it has been added to explain xkcd. So here is a complete list of all four comics in the entire Five-minute comics series:
Here is a list with explanations for each of the small comics:
It turns out that, somehow, this will all lead up to a theory that perfectly explains the September 11 attacks .
However, it turns out the jury consists only of women, so the "gentlemen" part is not needed. This poses a problem to Cueball's defense, which apparently relied on somewhat sexist tactics. This, sadly, is not too uncommon in real life.
Instead of belief in the Force as in the movie, the "ancient religion" referred to here is actually Wicca , a modern pagan religion with two deities that is most notable for practicing magic, and is related to voodoo . So, naturally, Darth Vader puts a hex on the commander's family. (Although, to modify a quote from the Internet, Wiccans hexing you as punishment is like a hippie threatening to punch you in your aura.) The title text notes that modern Wiccans don't really practice the whole "putting hexes on people" thing, which is true. Episcopalianism probably refers to the Episcopal Church of the United States , which was founded during the American Revolution to replace the Church of England in the colonies.
Because of a family illness, instead of regular comics, this week I'll be sharing some strips that I drew as part of a game I played with friends.  Each comic had to be written and drawn in five minutes.
--Randall
Comic #1 [A ninja is hiding under a diving board as a man runs along it.]
[The man jumps on the end of the board and hits the ninja in the head, knocking him into the pool.]
[The ninja floats in the water. A bullet passes through the man's head.] thwipp
[The man is lying bleeding on the diving board, the ninja is still unconscious on the pool.]
[A sniper is at the top of a hill. The sign in front of the hill says "Grassy Knoll".]
[Someone is pointing at the diagram of the previous panel.] Off-panel voice: Wait, so what does this have to do with 9/11, again? Cueball: I said I'm getting there!
Comic #2 [Cueball is studying Megan.] Cueball: You look different.
Cueball: You have this... glow about you.
[They stare in silence.]
[A baby falls out of Megan.] plop
Comic #3 Megan: Cogito ergo cogito. Off-panel voice: Playing it safe, huh?
Comic #4 [Two children dressed up as ghosts are standing in front of Megan at a door, each carrying a bag.] Children: Trick or treat!
[Megan doesn't move.]
Child: Um hi. Why are you just standing there? Other Child: Candy?
[Another silent panel as the children stare up at Megan.]
[The second child looks in their bag.] Other Child: Oh God, my bag of candy.
Other Child: It's filling with blood. Child: We should go.
Comic #5 [A jet is flying across the panel.] Pilot: Bail out! Bail out! Bail out!
[The pilot and copilot have buckets, and are bailing water out of the cockpit.]
Comic #6 The following is a dramatization of real events.
[Cueball is at a counter, with several jars.] Cueball: AAAAAAAAAAAAA I'm making a sandwich! AAAAAAAAAA!
Comic #7 [Two people are carrying lightsabers and wearing robes.] Cueball: Oh God, my eyes won't focus right! And your robe looks... really dirty! My blacklightsaber was not a success.
Comic #8 [Cueball is standing.] Cueball: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury... Off-screen voice: It seems we happen to be all ladies, actually. Cueball: ...in that case, this defense is going to appear extremely ill-advised.
Comic #9 [Darth Vader is sitting between two people, at a table.] Cueball: Your sad devotion to that ancient religion hasn't helped you conjur up the stolen data tapes, or given you— Darth Vader: HEY. Wicca is a legitimate belief system!
[Darth Vader is drawing a pentagram on the table.] Cueball: What are you— Darth Vader: Putting a hex on your family.
