2009-03-26
Original: 2009-03-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A newspaper headline reads:
HUMAN CLONING PERFECTED
(Below the headline is illegible scribbled body text and a small photo of a man.)
Panel 2: A man with glasses stands at a bathroom sink, holding a razor, looking at his reflection in the mirror. His reflection is mid-shave with a partially shaved/skull-like face.
Man: "I JUST HOPE MY SCIENCE HAS MADE THE WORLD BETTER."
Panel 3: The man bends down out of view of the mirror. His reflection, however, remains standing upright and visible in the mirror, not mirroring his movement.
Panel 4: A newspaper headline reads:
MIRROR SHORTAGE SOLVED
(Below the headline is illegible scribbled body text and a small photo.)
Votey: A simple sketch of two nearly identical women face to face. One holds up a small hand mirror toward the other; the reflection shown in the mirror is the smiling face of the woman looking into it. The joke implies one clone is being used as another's mirror.
HUMAN CLONING PERFECTED
(Below the headline is illegible scribbled body text and a small photo of a man.)
Panel 2: A man with glasses stands at a bathroom sink, holding a razor, looking at his reflection in the mirror. His reflection is mid-shave with a partially shaved/skull-like face.
Man: "I JUST HOPE MY SCIENCE HAS MADE THE WORLD BETTER."
Panel 3: The man bends down out of view of the mirror. His reflection, however, remains standing upright and visible in the mirror, not mirroring his movement.
Panel 4: A newspaper headline reads:
MIRROR SHORTAGE SOLVED
(Below the headline is illegible scribbled body text and a small photo.)
Votey: A simple sketch of two nearly identical women face to face. One holds up a small hand mirror toward the other; the reflection shown in the mirror is the smiling face of the woman looking into it. The joke implies one clone is being used as another's mirror.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a newspaper front page with the giant headline "HUMAN CLONING PERFECTED." Panel 2: a bespectacled man stands at a bathroom sink holding a razor, talking to his reflection in the mirror; he says, "I just hope my science has made the world better." Panel 3: the man bends down out of frame, but his "reflection" stays standing upright in the mirror, not copying his movement, revealing it is actually a cloned person standing in an empty mirror frame. Panel 4: a newspaper headline reads "MIRROR SHORTAGE SOLVED." The joke: cloning was used to replace mirrors by standing identical copies in the frames. Votey (bonus panel): a rough sketch of two nearly identical women facing each other, one holding up a small hand mirror to the other, whose smiling reflection appears in it, riffing again on clones being used as living mirrors.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.