2010-06-19
Original: 2010-06-19 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A split panel. The upper portion shows a city skyline with rounded gray asteroids streaking down from the sky, crashing into buildings amid orange flames. The lower portion shows a gray asteroid (with the rounded, cratered look they all have) inside an office, speaking to an off-panel figure across a desk.
Asteroid: MISTER PRESIDENT! ...IT HAS BEGUN!
Panel 2: A wider view of the office. A red curtain and a window showing blue sky frame a gray asteroid figure with a grim expression.
Panel 3: Two asteroid figures face each other across a desk.
First asteroid: WE STARTED THIS, JIM. OUR ANCESTORS PRAYED THIS DAY OF RECKONING WOULD NEVER COME.
Second asteroid (the President): ...TELL THEM WE SURRENDER. UNCONDITIONALLY.
Panel 4 (left): A green hand reaches up out of frame against a blue sky, with an orange streak below it.
Voice: CAPTAIN! THE ASTEROIDS WISH TO SURRENDER! WHAT SHALL I TELL THEM?
Panel 5 (right): A dark, shadowed interior. A silhouetted figure sits in a command chair.
Captain: TELL THEM...
Panel 6: The reveal. A green dinosaur (the Captain) with sharp teeth and large eyes is shown in profile, with a smaller dinosaur visible behind it. The mood is dark and dramatic.
Captain: IT'S TOO LATE.
Votey: A close-up of the grinning dinosaur's face. A caption in quotation marks reads: "REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED BY DINOSAURS WITH LASERS."
Asteroid: MISTER PRESIDENT! ...IT HAS BEGUN!
Panel 2: A wider view of the office. A red curtain and a window showing blue sky frame a gray asteroid figure with a grim expression.
Panel 3: Two asteroid figures face each other across a desk.
First asteroid: WE STARTED THIS, JIM. OUR ANCESTORS PRAYED THIS DAY OF RECKONING WOULD NEVER COME.
Second asteroid (the President): ...TELL THEM WE SURRENDER. UNCONDITIONALLY.
Panel 4 (left): A green hand reaches up out of frame against a blue sky, with an orange streak below it.
Voice: CAPTAIN! THE ASTEROIDS WISH TO SURRENDER! WHAT SHALL I TELL THEM?
Panel 5 (right): A dark, shadowed interior. A silhouetted figure sits in a command chair.
Captain: TELL THEM...
Panel 6: The reveal. A green dinosaur (the Captain) with sharp teeth and large eyes is shown in profile, with a smaller dinosaur visible behind it. The mood is dark and dramatic.
Captain: IT'S TOO LATE.
Votey: A close-up of the grinning dinosaur's face. A caption in quotation marks reads: "REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED BY DINOSAURS WITH LASERS."
Alt text
A six-panel comic. The villains are sentient gray asteroids; the heroes are dinosaurs. Panel 1 splits between a city being bombarded by falling asteroids amid flames, and an asteroid in an office reporting to its leader: 'Mister President! ...It has begun!' Panel 2 shows a grim asteroid by a curtained window. Panel 3: two asteroids talk across a desk. One says, 'We started this, Jim. Our ancestors prayed this day of reckoning would never come.' The President asteroid replies, '...Tell them we surrender. Unconditionally.' Panel 4: a green dinosaur hand against the sky as a voice calls, 'Captain! The asteroids wish to surrender! What shall I tell them?' Panel 5: a dark command deck where a silhouetted figure says, 'Tell them...' Panel 6 reveals a sharp-toothed green dinosaur captain who finishes, 'It's too late.' Votey: a close-up of the grinning dinosaur's face with the caption, 'Revenge is a dish best served by dinosaurs with lasers.' The joke flips the asteroid-extinction premise: the dinosaurs survived, built a space fleet, and are now exacting genocidal revenge on the asteroids, refusing their surrender.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.