2009-01-09
Original: 2009-01-09 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A small green island with a volcano in the middle of a blue sea. No text.
Panel 2: A bearded, balding man in an orange shirt sits on a beach beside a small time machine.
Man: God, I'm hungry. But all I have is this time machine.
Panel 3: The man, sitting by his time machine, has an idea.
Man: Wait a minute!
Panel 4: The man stands at the base of the volcano's lava flow / cliff face, facing it.
Panel 5: The man uses a stick to scratch a giant message into the dirt/rock wall.
Message carved into the wall: Dear people of the future. Whoever finds this.. please come back to the following time and place: [arrow / coordinates]
Panel 6: Close-up of the man holding up the stick triumphantly, a flash of light/electricity above it.
Panel 7: A muscular man in a green superhero costume and mask arrives.
Green-costumed man: Dr. Eddington! I'm here to-
Panel 8: The green-costumed man grabs Dr. Eddington by the throat. Dr. Eddington chokes.
Dr. Eddington: GHK
Panel 9: On the beach by a campfire, the green-costumed man (now revealed to be barbecuing/eating) lies cooked over the fire while Dr. Eddington kneels eating a chunk of green meat. The sun shines overhead. (The twist: Dr. Eddington lured a person from the future back in time specifically to kill and eat him for food.)
Votey:
Dr. Eddington reclines on the beach, a thought bubble above him.
Dr. Eddington (thinking): Some days, I'm really glad I became a physicist.
Panel 2: A bearded, balding man in an orange shirt sits on a beach beside a small time machine.
Man: God, I'm hungry. But all I have is this time machine.
Panel 3: The man, sitting by his time machine, has an idea.
Man: Wait a minute!
Panel 4: The man stands at the base of the volcano's lava flow / cliff face, facing it.
Panel 5: The man uses a stick to scratch a giant message into the dirt/rock wall.
Message carved into the wall: Dear people of the future. Whoever finds this.. please come back to the following time and place: [arrow / coordinates]
Panel 6: Close-up of the man holding up the stick triumphantly, a flash of light/electricity above it.
Panel 7: A muscular man in a green superhero costume and mask arrives.
Green-costumed man: Dr. Eddington! I'm here to-
Panel 8: The green-costumed man grabs Dr. Eddington by the throat. Dr. Eddington chokes.
Dr. Eddington: GHK
Panel 9: On the beach by a campfire, the green-costumed man (now revealed to be barbecuing/eating) lies cooked over the fire while Dr. Eddington kneels eating a chunk of green meat. The sun shines overhead. (The twist: Dr. Eddington lured a person from the future back in time specifically to kill and eat him for food.)
Votey:
Dr. Eddington reclines on the beach, a thought bubble above him.
Dr. Eddington (thinking): Some days, I'm really glad I became a physicist.
Alt text
A nine-panel SMBC comic. A small volcanic island sits in the sea. On its beach, a bearded balding man in an orange shirt sits beside a small time machine and says, 'God, I'm hungry. But all I have is this time machine.' He has an idea ('Wait a minute!') and uses a stick to scratch a huge message into a rock wall: 'Dear people of the future. Whoever finds this.. please come back to the following time and place,' with coordinates. He triumphantly holds up the stick as electricity sparks. A muscular man in a green superhero costume and mask arrives saying 'Dr. Eddington! I'm here to-' but Dr. Eddington grabs him by the throat ('GHK'). In the final panel, the green-costumed time traveler is cooked over a campfire on the beach while Dr. Eddington kneels eating a chunk of green meat under a bright sun. The joke: a stranded, starving physicist used a time machine to lure someone from the future back specifically to kill and eat him. Votey: Dr. Eddington reclines on the beach thinking, 'Some days, I'm really glad I became a physicist.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.