#909: Worst-Case Shopping explain

[Cueball is diving in very deep, dark blue water. He shines a flashlight at the sea floor.]

Cueball (thinks): Eight meters. There’s the wreckage… Yes! I see the key!

[As he swims further toward it, his flashlight starts to cut out.]

Cueball (thinks): Gotta grab it, surface, get in to the radio shed, and warn the President! Just a few more…

Flashlight: BZZT FIZZ

[This panel has no border like the others, and is divided in half diagonally by a thought bubble.]

[The left half of it is a dark blue thought bubble with the diver inside it. On the right hand side are packaged flashlights hanging on a shelf. The one called Hi-Brite is $24.95 and is labeled “water resistant to 10 meters.” The one called “FenStar G6” is $49.95 and says “water resistant to 40 meters.”]

Cueball (thinks): Oh no.

[Cueball and a friend stand in front of a flashlight display in a store. Cueball looks down at the packages with his hand on his chin in thought. The thought bubble from the previous panel leads from his head. The friend stands behind him.]

Cueball: …maybe I should spring for the deeper water resistance.

Friend: Why on earth would you care about that?

Cueball: Look, you never know.