2006-08-27
Original: 2006-08-27 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A blue-skinned humanoid alien with large yellow eyes, pointed ears, and a costume with a yellow collar and belt stands inside what appears to be a spaceship interior. It gestures toward a human man (seen from behind, balding, in a dark blue robe) who faces it.
Alien: IN EXCHANGE FOR ONE MILLION HUMAN CHILDREN, WE SHALL SHARE ALL OF OUR ADVANCED MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE.
Caption (below panel): In retrospect, it should've been obvious that Altarian biology was vastly different from our own.
Votey:
A close-up sketch of the blue alien's face looking confused.
Alien (thought/speech): What the hell is "cancer"?
A blue-skinned humanoid alien with large yellow eyes, pointed ears, and a costume with a yellow collar and belt stands inside what appears to be a spaceship interior. It gestures toward a human man (seen from behind, balding, in a dark blue robe) who faces it.
Alien: IN EXCHANGE FOR ONE MILLION HUMAN CHILDREN, WE SHALL SHARE ALL OF OUR ADVANCED MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE.
Caption (below panel): In retrospect, it should've been obvious that Altarian biology was vastly different from our own.
Votey:
A close-up sketch of the blue alien's face looking confused.
Alien (thought/speech): What the hell is "cancer"?
Alt text
Main comic: A blue-skinned alien with large yellow eyes, pointed ears, and a superhero-style costume stands aboard a spaceship, gesturing toward a balding human man in a dark robe who is seen from behind. The alien declares, "In exchange for one million human children, we shall share all of our advanced medical knowledge." A caption below reads: "In retrospect, it should've been obvious that Altarian biology was vastly different from our own" — implying humanity gave up a million children for medical knowledge useless to human bodies. Votey: A close-up sketch of the alien's face looking puzzled, asking, "What the hell is 'cancer'?" — revealing the aliens have no concept of the diseases humans actually needed cured.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.