Our lives have been slowly taken over by lasers while we weren't looking, but did you ever stop and think about the complex series of events to achieve this marvelous process? Inspired by the tumultuous life of any Graduate student, this comic describes the plight of an electron that is violently jumping around between atomic levels to create light. While the top panels narrate this harrowing tale, the bottom panels attempt to elucidate the scientific concepts and principles behind the story.