2003-05-05
Original: 2003-05-05 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A yellow, robot-like alien stands on a dark, moon-like world, raising a fist triumphantly. In the background, the green-and-blue Earth hangs in space among dark rocks.
Alien: FINALLY EARTH'S GREENHOUSE GAS LEVELS HAVE LOWERED! THE INVASION CAN BEGIN!
Votey:
A caption at the top of the panel; below it, a small alien figure with a heart over its head is engulfed by a large, spreading cloud of black dust.
Caption (alien, panicked): COAL DUST! OUR GREATEST WEAKNESS!
A yellow, robot-like alien stands on a dark, moon-like world, raising a fist triumphantly. In the background, the green-and-blue Earth hangs in space among dark rocks.
Alien: FINALLY EARTH'S GREENHOUSE GAS LEVELS HAVE LOWERED! THE INVASION CAN BEGIN!
Votey:
A caption at the top of the panel; below it, a small alien figure with a heart over its head is engulfed by a large, spreading cloud of black dust.
Caption (alien, panicked): COAL DUST! OUR GREATEST WEAKNESS!
Alt text
Main comic: A single panel shows a yellow, vaguely humanoid alien robot standing on a dark, rocky moon-like surface, raising one fist in triumph. The green-and-blue planet Earth floats in the black sky behind it among dark boulders. Its speech bubble reads: "FINALLY EARTH'S GREENHOUSE GAS LEVELS HAVE LOWERED! THE INVASION CAN BEGIN!" The joke: the aliens were waiting for humanity to clean up its emissions before invading. Votey (aftercomic): A black-and-white panel captioned "COAL DUST! OUR GREATEST WEAKNESS!" Below, a small alien is swallowed by a huge spreading cloud of black dust, revealing that the very pollution they wanted gone is fatal to them.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.