2010-12-27
Original: 2010-12-27 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: An aide with gray hair and glasses holds a sheet of paper, reading to a balding man seated at a desk (the President).
Aide: "MR. PRESIDENT! A BLACK HOLE IS APPROACHING EARTH AT NEAR LIGHT SPEED."
Panel 2: Close on the aide's face, the President's profile in the foreground.
Aide: "THERE IS NO MEANS OF ESCAPE FOR ANY HUMAN BEING."
Panel 3: The President gestures, looking pained.
President: "THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ACADEMY OF ARTS JOINED TOGETHER TO SEND A GROUP MESSAGE INTO THE HEAVENS."
Panel 4: The two figures shown only as white silhouettes against a black background.
Figure 1: "HOW'D IT GO?"
Figure 2: "NOT GREAT."
Panel 5: A view of space. Earth is being pulled into a black hole (swirl) at upper left. At lower right floats a large two-sided message panel/monolith. The two sides read:
Left side: "SCIENCE IS BORING"
Right side: "ART IS STUPID"
Votey:
A close-up of the floating message panel/monolith drifting in space. Its two sides each read: "SO'S YER MOM" / "SO'S YER MOM".
Aide: "MR. PRESIDENT! A BLACK HOLE IS APPROACHING EARTH AT NEAR LIGHT SPEED."
Panel 2: Close on the aide's face, the President's profile in the foreground.
Aide: "THERE IS NO MEANS OF ESCAPE FOR ANY HUMAN BEING."
Panel 3: The President gestures, looking pained.
President: "THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ACADEMY OF ARTS JOINED TOGETHER TO SEND A GROUP MESSAGE INTO THE HEAVENS."
Panel 4: The two figures shown only as white silhouettes against a black background.
Figure 1: "HOW'D IT GO?"
Figure 2: "NOT GREAT."
Panel 5: A view of space. Earth is being pulled into a black hole (swirl) at upper left. At lower right floats a large two-sided message panel/monolith. The two sides read:
Left side: "SCIENCE IS BORING"
Right side: "ART IS STUPID"
Votey:
A close-up of the floating message panel/monolith drifting in space. Its two sides each read: "SO'S YER MOM" / "SO'S YER MOM".
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a gray-haired aide in glasses reads from a paper to a balding seated President: "Mr. President! A black hole is approaching Earth at near light speed." Panel 2, close on the aide: "There is no means of escape for any human being." Panel 3, the President gestures sadly: "The academy of sciences and academy of arts joined together to send a group message into the heavens." Panel 4, the two men appear as plain white silhouettes on black; one asks "How'd it go?" the other answers "Not great." Panel 5, a starfield: Earth is being sucked into a swirling black hole, while humanity's grand combined message to the cosmos floats nearby as a giant two-sided slab reading "SCIENCE IS BORING" on one side and "ART IS STUPID" on the other, the two academies having insulted each other instead of cooperating. Votey: a close-up of the floating message slab drifting in space, both its sides now reading "SO'S YER MOM" — the petty insult war continuing.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.