Designing the Death Star
An evil space emperor rejects one design after another for his battle station (pyramid, cube, hockey puck, pencil, spiky polyhedron) before settling on a sphere.
Transcript
[Six panels: an evil emperor reviews designs for his space station] [Pyramid] "What am I, a space pharaoh?" [Cube] "We're the Empire, not the Borg." [Hockey puck] [Pencil] "Death Pencil? I've met Ewoks more intimidating than that." [Spiky stellated polyhedron] "Who do you think I am, Emperor Euclid? Some ruthless Machiavellian who kills people with dumb suggestions?" [Sphere] "Now, this I can work with!"
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-09-18-designing-the-death-star/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)