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3199. Early Arthropods

title text: 'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects

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4 panel comic. 1. (double wide) Underwater scene with a couple of plant like things and some small blobs speaking to each other. Blob 1: Now that we're multicellular, what are your plans? I'm gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! Blob 2: I'm gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them crunch stuff! Blob 3: I'm gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. 2. Zoom in to just the blobs, no more plant like things visible. No speaking. 3. Blob 1: Dude. Blob 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? Blob 3: What ??!