2011-04-13
Original: 2011-04-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A robed, bearded figure resembling Jesus floats in the air above a crowd, haloed by a glowing yellow sun, arms outstretched.
Jesus figure: I'VE RETURNED! I'M HERE TO TAKE ALL THE STRONGEST, RICHEST, SEXIEST HUMANS TO HEAVEN!
A person in the crowd: BUT, DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT... OH.
(smaller) OH, RIGHT.
Caption below the panel: "The meek shall inherit the Earth."
Votey:
Hand-lettered text at the top: % OF UNIVERSE THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT, BY VOLUME:
Below is a long string of decimal places written as rows of zeros: .00000000000 0000000000 00000000000 0000000000 000000000 3% — i.e. a vanishingly small decimal ending in 3%.
A robed, bearded figure resembling Jesus floats in the air above a crowd, haloed by a glowing yellow sun, arms outstretched.
Jesus figure: I'VE RETURNED! I'M HERE TO TAKE ALL THE STRONGEST, RICHEST, SEXIEST HUMANS TO HEAVEN!
A person in the crowd: BUT, DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT... OH.
(smaller) OH, RIGHT.
Caption below the panel: "The meek shall inherit the Earth."
Votey:
Hand-lettered text at the top: % OF UNIVERSE THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT, BY VOLUME:
Below is a long string of decimal places written as rows of zeros: .00000000000 0000000000 00000000000 0000000000 000000000 3% — i.e. a vanishingly small decimal ending in 3%.
Alt text
An SMBC comic. A bearded figure dressed like Jesus, in white and purple robes, floats in the air haloed by a glowing sun with his arms spread wide, above a crowd of ordinary people seen from behind. He proclaims, 'I've returned! I'm here to take all the strongest, richest, sexiest humans to heaven!' Someone in the crowd replies, 'But, didn't you say that... oh. Oh, right.' A caption beneath reads: 'The meek shall inherit the Earth.' The joke: the second coming takes the powerful, leaving the meek with the Earth as a consolation. The votey (aftercomic) is a hand-lettered note titled '% of universe the meek shall inherit, by volume:' followed by many rows of zeros forming a tiny decimal that ends in '3%' — driving home that inheriting the Earth amounts to a vanishingly small fraction of the universe.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.