2011-01-29
Original: 2011-01-29 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with dark hair and glasses, wearing a green shirt, speaks with a downcast, weary expression.
Woman: It's called "Mutually Assured Destruction." The idea is that each player has enough power to destroy the other, no matter what. So, neither party attempts a major hostile action.
Caption (below panel): Political scientists have a different way of proposing marriage.
Votey:
Header banner: LATER...
A man with messy hair lies in bed, looking up in alarm. Floating above him is a small armed missile/bomb.
Man: What the—
A woman with dark hair and glasses, wearing a green shirt, speaks with a downcast, weary expression.
Woman: It's called "Mutually Assured Destruction." The idea is that each player has enough power to destroy the other, no matter what. So, neither party attempts a major hostile action.
Caption (below panel): Political scientists have a different way of proposing marriage.
Votey:
Header banner: LATER...
A man with messy hair lies in bed, looking up in alarm. Floating above him is a small armed missile/bomb.
Man: What the—
Alt text
Main comic: A single panel shows a dark-haired woman in glasses and a green shirt with a tired, downcast expression saying, "It's called 'Mutually Assured Destruction.' The idea is that each player has enough power to destroy the other, no matter what. So, neither party attempts a major hostile action." A caption below reads: "Political scientists have a different way of proposing marriage." The joke frames the Cold War nuclear-standoff doctrine as her way of explaining the deterrent logic of getting married. Votey (aftercomic): A banner reads "LATER..." A man with messy hair lies in bed, startled, looking up at a small armed missile hovering above him and says, "What the—", implying the mutual-destruction arrangement has literally been armed.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.