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Kola Classhole

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/itoons/?comic=895

Strip by: AlduinTheCat

{Megan and Black Hat are working on computers at desks facing away from each other}
Megan: Ever hear of the Kola Borehole?
Black Hat: No - what's that?
Megan: A Soviet project to drill deep into the Earth's crust.
{Black Hat turns his chair to face Megan, who stops typing but does not turn around herself}
Black Hat: Why would anyone believe that story? Unless they like Hell.
{Megan turns around to face Black Hat, but he is no longer visible in the panel, suggesting that he either returned to his desk or (judging by the distance the two characters' desks are apart in the first panel) disappeared into thin air.}

The author writes:

Who was that, anyway?

Original xkcd strip: #1330, "Kola Borehole" (title references #72).