Spice Girls
Spice Girls
Cueball: Your turn: Can you name all of the Spice Girls?
Megan: Hmm… Hearing Spice, Vision Spice, Smell Spice, Touch Spice, Taste Spice? Cueball: That’s senses.
Megan: Denial Spice, Anger Spice, Bargaining Spice, Depression Spice, Acceptance Spice. Cueball: Stages of grief.
Megan: War Spice, Famine Spice, Plague Spice, Death Spice? Cueball: You're not even trying.
Megan: No, wait, I can get this for real. Uhh… Megan: Pog Spice, Story Spice, Sarah Spice, Gender Spice, Baleen Spice? Cueball: …Close enough.

Cueball and Megan are apparently playing a game in which they name all of the elements in some category. Cueball asks Megan to name all of the Spice Girls , a pop group whose nicknames were
Instead, Megan winds up making up names by tacking "Spice" onto words from other, completely unrelated categories:
This seems to be a continuation of 1417: Seven , where Megan asks Cueball to name the seven dwarfs. Apparently Megan confuses different sets of five (or four when she is not trying) which may be compared to the way Cueball mixes items from different sets of seven, thus not mentioning a full set, but just seven items from seven different sets of seven.
The title text has the correct "first" names of the Spice Girls, but replaces the "Spice" part of their names with "Extinction" to associate them with Earth's five mass extinctions . The five actual worst mass extinctions are:
Randall previously referenced the Spice Girls in 1511: Spice Girl (more specifically, using "Which Spice Girl Are You?" as an example of online personality quizzes).
And already in the next comic 1555: Exoplanet Names 2 he suggest to give five exoplanets around the same star the five nicknames.
Cueball: Your turn: Can you name all of the Spice Girls?
Megan: Hmm… Hearing Spice, Vision Spice, Smell Spice, Touch Spice, Taste Spice? Cueball: That’s senses.
Megan: Denial Spice, Anger Spice, Bargaining Spice, Depression Spice, Acceptance Spice. Cueball: Stages of grief.
Megan: War Spice, Famine Spice, Plague Spice, Death Spice? Cueball: You're not even trying.
Megan: No, wait, I can get this for real. Uhh… Megan: Pog Spice, Story Spice, Sarah Spice, Gender Spice, Baleen Spice? Cueball: …Close enough.
