2010-10-03
Original: 2010-10-03 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Interviewer (a young man with red hair, holding a notepad): So, how did you come to discover general relativity?
Elderly man with wild gray hair and a mustache (Einstein-like): Whenever I try to understand the cosmos, I think "How would God design it?"
Panel 2:
Red-haired interviewer (touched, moved): That's so... beautiful.
Panel 3:
Elderly gray-haired man (looking uneasy, glancing away): ...Yeah...
Panel 4 (banner reads "EARLIER..."):
The elderly gray-haired man (younger here, looking strained and sweating, surrounded by clouds): I'm gonna make MASS CURVE SPACETIME.
A blonde angelic figure (laughing hysterically): BAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAH AHA!
(Between them floats a large glowing yellow figure/light.)
Votey:
Text in a hand-lettered box: "GOD IS SUBTLE, BUT NEVER TOO MUCH OF A DICK."
Interviewer (a young man with red hair, holding a notepad): So, how did you come to discover general relativity?
Elderly man with wild gray hair and a mustache (Einstein-like): Whenever I try to understand the cosmos, I think "How would God design it?"
Panel 2:
Red-haired interviewer (touched, moved): That's so... beautiful.
Panel 3:
Elderly gray-haired man (looking uneasy, glancing away): ...Yeah...
Panel 4 (banner reads "EARLIER..."):
The elderly gray-haired man (younger here, looking strained and sweating, surrounded by clouds): I'm gonna make MASS CURVE SPACETIME.
A blonde angelic figure (laughing hysterically): BAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAH AHA!
(Between them floats a large glowing yellow figure/light.)
Votey:
Text in a hand-lettered box: "GOD IS SUBTLE, BUT NEVER TOO MUCH OF A DICK."
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: a red-haired interviewer with a notepad asks an elderly Einstein-like man with wild gray hair, "So, how did you come to discover general relativity?" The old man replies, "Whenever I try to understand the cosmos, I think 'How would God design it?'" Panel 2: the interviewer, visibly moved, says, "That's so... beautiful." Panel 3: the old man glances away uneasily and mutters, "...Yeah..." Panel 4, labeled "EARLIER...": a flashback showing the man younger, sweating and strained amid clouds, declaring, "I'm gonna make MASS CURVE SPACETIME," while a blonde angelic figure beside a large glowing light cackles, "BAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAH AHA!" The joke: his great insight was actually a desperate guess that God and the angels found hilarious. Votey (aftercomic): a single hand-lettered box reading, "GOD IS SUBTLE, BUT NEVER TOO MUCH OF A DICK" — a riff on Einstein's famous line "God is subtle, but he is not malicious."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.