Soup the Comic Strip by Alun Clewe
Comic strip for October 20 2023.
PANEL ONE: The champion faces a cloaked figure in a doorway. CLOAKED FIGURE: Xak'lar has decreed that you shall be set free if you can pass a test. CHAMPION: What kind of a test? PANEL TWO: Long view; we see that the champion is in a sort of a cage high on a wall. CLOAKED FIGURE: You'll find out. Do you accept? CHAMPION: Do I have a choice? PANEL THREE: Close on the cloaked figure. CLOAKED FIGURE: Follow me, then. PANEL FIVE: The champion faces the high priestess. CHAMPION: All right. I'm ready for your test. Let me at it! PANEL SIX: Close on the high priestess. HIGH PRIESTESS: Very well, brave adventurer. Only answer this one question, and then, as agreed, we will set you free. PANEL SEVEN: Wider shot of the champion facing the high priestess, with other cloaked figures standing around. HIGH PRIESTESS: One rider set off east from Moorton at two miles per hour, while another starting at Willstone fifty miles east of there started west four hours later at three miles per hour... CHAMPION (thinking): I can't decide whether this is really evil or just stupid.
October 20 2023

Ugh. This may possibly be my least favorite "joke" from the original run of the strip. Ha ha! Math is evil, amiright? (It's particularly annoying because in fact I do like math. I think math is very interesting! It was one of my majors in college! Why did I make this stupid, anti-intellectual "joke"?)