I wonder if in the last panel he should have said something like “wow, that got huge.” It seemed like such a multifaceted analogy which I pinned down solely to “people following it.
I mean, what about
“That’s the resources you end up putting behind it.”
“That’s the stampede of angry people with torches and pitchforks following you afterwards”
‘That’s the representation of the chunk of you life now gone.”
etc.
I still like the strip. :)
Even better than that — it starts out as an analogy, but the avalanche becomes its all-too real unintended consequences.
“Who’s the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?” -Ben Kenobi
A lot of different phrases could fit the last panel, even just plain ol’ silence.
I do like the one you chose, because at least it was one I wasn’t thinking of myself and it fits Vachel. Sometimes the right piece of dialogue is the one that is most like what the character would say. :)