2009-07-09
Original: 2009-07-09 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Boy (hands clasped in prayer, looking up): Dear God, do you actually answer prayers?
Voice from above (in a speech bubble near a glowing sun): Yes, but only in a way indistinguishable from random luck or the result of your own efforts.
Panel 2:
Boy (hands clasped in prayer): Dear Satan -
Red, horned devil (holding open a briefcase full of cash): You want small denominations or large?
Caption (below the panels): Who do you think is gonna win the war at the end of days?
Votey:
A handwritten note on a scroll reads:
"Dear Grammar Nerds,
I don't care! 'Whom' just didn't sound right! So there.
<3 Zach"
Boy (hands clasped in prayer, looking up): Dear God, do you actually answer prayers?
Voice from above (in a speech bubble near a glowing sun): Yes, but only in a way indistinguishable from random luck or the result of your own efforts.
Panel 2:
Boy (hands clasped in prayer): Dear Satan -
Red, horned devil (holding open a briefcase full of cash): You want small denominations or large?
Caption (below the panels): Who do you think is gonna win the war at the end of days?
Votey:
A handwritten note on a scroll reads:
"Dear Grammar Nerds,
I don't care! 'Whom' just didn't sound right! So there.
<3 Zach"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel one: a young boy with orange hair kneels with hands clasped in prayer, looking up at a glowing yellow sun. He asks, 'Dear God, do you actually answer prayers?' A speech bubble from above replies, 'Yes, but only in a way indistinguishable from random luck or the result of your own efforts.' Panel two: the same boy prays again, saying 'Dear Satan -'. A grinning red horned devil leans in holding an open briefcase stuffed with cash and asks, 'You want small denominations or large?' Caption below: 'Who do you think is gonna win the war at the end of days?' The joke: God gives vague, deniable non-answers while Satan responds instantly with concrete bribes. Votey: a handwritten note on a scroll reads, 'Dear Grammar Nerds, I don't care! "Whom" just didn't sound right! So there. <3 Zach' — the author defending his use of 'who' instead of 'whom' in the caption.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.