2010-11-23
Original: 2010-11-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (narration caption, top): SOMEDAY, BROTHER, MAN WILL TRANSFER HIS BRAIN TO MACHINES.
Image: A bald man's head and bare shoulders, with a glowing red dot on his forehead and many pale-blue cables plugged into his skull, connecting him to surrounding machinery.
Panel 2 (narration caption): AND WE WILL TRAVEL THE STARS LIKE GREAT WHALES THROUGH THE OCEAN OF SPACE.
Image: A large gray whale-like spaceship soaring through starry space, a green thruster trail behind it, with the planet Earth in the distance.
Panel 3 (narration caption): AND YOU MAY REACH THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE WHERE ALL IS VOID AND DARKNESS REIGNS.
Image: The gray whale-ship near a glowing yellow grid-like wall (the edge of the universe).
Panel 4 (narration caption): BUT, NO MATTER WHAT YOU SEE OR HOW LONG YOU LIVE...
Image: A close-up of the gray whale-ship's eye in the dark.
Panel 5 (narration caption): I STILL CAUGHT YOU HAVING HARRY POTTER CYBERSEX ON NOVEMBER 22, 2010 AT 10:04
Image: Two men in a dim room. A shirtless man sits at a computer desk, looking embarrassed. Another man stands gesturing, palms up.
Shirtless man (shouting): JUST LEAVE ALREADY!
Votey:
A handwritten note reads: "Thanks for supporting Captain Stupendous, everyone! Now to make my left hand sore for a better reason than usual!"
Image: A bald man's head and bare shoulders, with a glowing red dot on his forehead and many pale-blue cables plugged into his skull, connecting him to surrounding machinery.
Panel 2 (narration caption): AND WE WILL TRAVEL THE STARS LIKE GREAT WHALES THROUGH THE OCEAN OF SPACE.
Image: A large gray whale-like spaceship soaring through starry space, a green thruster trail behind it, with the planet Earth in the distance.
Panel 3 (narration caption): AND YOU MAY REACH THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE WHERE ALL IS VOID AND DARKNESS REIGNS.
Image: The gray whale-ship near a glowing yellow grid-like wall (the edge of the universe).
Panel 4 (narration caption): BUT, NO MATTER WHAT YOU SEE OR HOW LONG YOU LIVE...
Image: A close-up of the gray whale-ship's eye in the dark.
Panel 5 (narration caption): I STILL CAUGHT YOU HAVING HARRY POTTER CYBERSEX ON NOVEMBER 22, 2010 AT 10:04
Image: Two men in a dim room. A shirtless man sits at a computer desk, looking embarrassed. Another man stands gesturing, palms up.
Shirtless man (shouting): JUST LEAVE ALREADY!
Votey:
A handwritten note reads: "Thanks for supporting Captain Stupendous, everyone! Now to make my left hand sore for a better reason than usual!"
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic with grand narration captions over each panel. Panel 1: a bald man's head wired into machinery by many blue cables, a red dot glowing on his forehead, captioned "Someday, brother, man will transfer his brain to machines." Panel 2: a gray whale-shaped spaceship flying through stars past Earth, captioned "And we will travel the stars like great whales through the ocean of space." Panel 3: the whale-ship beside a glowing yellow grid at the edge of the universe, captioned "And you may reach the edge of the universe where all is void and darkness reigns." Panel 4: a close-up of the whale-ship's eye, captioned "But, no matter what you see or how long you live..." Panel 5 undercuts the cosmic poetry: caption reads "I still caught you having Harry Potter cybersex on November 22, 2010 at 10:04." Two men stand in a dim room; the shirtless one at a computer desk yells "Just leave already!" while the other gestures helplessly. The joke: the lofty narration is actually a person scolding a roommate for a humiliatingly specific private moment. Votey: a handwritten note reads, "Thanks for supporting Captain Stupendous, everyone! Now to make my left hand sore for a better reason than usual!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.