2026-07-17 DB-071
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Strip Commentary

Reading It

The Consultant announces they've reached a plateau. Rollo asks: 'Of what?' The Consultant doesn't specify, because the plateau -- like everything else the Consultant offers -- is a concept without content. A plateau implies prior progress, but no progress was ever defined or measured. You've been told a project has 'stabilized' when nobody could tell you what it was supposed to achieve.

Deeper Read

You can't plateau without a peak. The Consultant named a shape in a graph that doesn't exist.