2009-11-08
Original: 2009-11-08 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A glowing energy being (rendered as a teal field of bright scribbled streaks) addresses a group of three humans standing in front of it.
Energy being: "DO NOT BE ALARMED, HUMANS! WE ONCE HAD BODIES LIKE YOU, BUT AS OUR TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED, WE TRANSFERRED OUR CONSCIOUSNESSES TO PURE ENERGY."
The three humans face the being: a man in a green military jacket with a mustache, a man in a suit and tie in the center, and an older woman with gray hair and glasses on the right. They look uneasy.
Caption (below panel): "In retrospect, it was bad diplomacy to use one of the Centaurians to charge my phone."
Votey:
A man in a suit stands at a podium, speaking and gesturing.
Man at podium: "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE SOLVED THE ENERGY CRISIS."
A glowing energy being (rendered as a teal field of bright scribbled streaks) addresses a group of three humans standing in front of it.
Energy being: "DO NOT BE ALARMED, HUMANS! WE ONCE HAD BODIES LIKE YOU, BUT AS OUR TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED, WE TRANSFERRED OUR CONSCIOUSNESSES TO PURE ENERGY."
The three humans face the being: a man in a green military jacket with a mustache, a man in a suit and tie in the center, and an older woman with gray hair and glasses on the right. They look uneasy.
Caption (below panel): "In retrospect, it was bad diplomacy to use one of the Centaurians to charge my phone."
Votey:
A man in a suit stands at a podium, speaking and gesturing.
Man at podium: "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE SOLVED THE ENERGY CRISIS."
Alt text
A color comic panel shows a glowing alien being, drawn as a field of bright teal energy scribbles, addressing three nervous-looking humans: a mustached man in a green military jacket, a man in a suit and tie, and an older gray-haired woman in glasses. The energy being declares in a speech bubble: "DO NOT BE ALARMED, HUMANS! WE ONCE HAD BODIES LIKE YOU, BUT AS OUR TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED, WE TRANSFERRED OUR CONSCIOUSNESSES TO PURE ENERGY." A caption below reads: "In retrospect, it was bad diplomacy to use one of the Centaurians to charge my phone" -- the joke being that the human narrator unknowingly drained a sentient energy alien to power a phone. The votey (a black-and-white aftercomic) shows a man at a podium gesturing as he proudly announces: "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE SOLVED THE ENERGY CRISIS," implying these energy aliens were harvested as a power source.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.