permalink: "#28 (November 20, 2023): Phone Tree Purgatory"
You know you're in trouble when you start envying the guy who got eaten by the Minotaur.
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28: Phone Tree Purgatory - November 20, 2023 (M)
Panel 1
[Pilcrow and the Asterism are in an ornate Victorian living room in the Black Manor in their bird-headed humanoid forms as a crow and three-eyed flamingo. The Asterism is standing in a gray gown with a pearl necklace. Pilcrow is seated in a lavender suit with a white shirt underneath and no tie. He is holding an old-fashioned Victorian-era phone to his ear.]
Telephone: "Your journey is important to us. Press one to tread the path of waiting."
Pilcrow: "This customer support phone menu is such a labyrinth that somewhere there's a Minotaur with my account info."
Panel 2
[Pilcrow is on hold, there's music notes coming from the phone.]
Pilcrow: "And worse yet, I am convinced this music is what plays in elevators going down to hell."
Panel 3
Pilcrow: "Hello? Hello! Anyone? I'm just trying to reach someone who doesn't think my call is important to them."
Panel 4
Asterism: "Each level of customer service, another circle of Dante's Inferno."
Pilcrow: "I'm just looking for a Virgil to guide me through this bureaucratic abyss."