2012-06-22
Original: 2012-06-22 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title (above the comic): EVENTUALLY, EVERYTHING IS NORMAL
Panel 1:
A bald man with a mustache, wearing a purple robe, gestures emphatically against a red background.
Man: "Soylent Green is PEOPLE. PEEEEEOPLE!"
Panel 2 (banner across the top reads "LATER..."):
The same bald man, now looking calmer and resigned, holds a yellow box/carton.
Man: "Soylent Green is PEOPLE. HIGH CHOLESTEROL PEEEEOPLE!"
Votey:
A looser, sketchier panel. The same bald man looks thoughtful.
Man: "Hmm... but they do contain all the vitamins I need."
Panel 1:
A bald man with a mustache, wearing a purple robe, gestures emphatically against a red background.
Man: "Soylent Green is PEOPLE. PEEEEEOPLE!"
Panel 2 (banner across the top reads "LATER..."):
The same bald man, now looking calmer and resigned, holds a yellow box/carton.
Man: "Soylent Green is PEOPLE. HIGH CHOLESTEROL PEEEEOPLE!"
Votey:
A looser, sketchier panel. The same bald man looks thoughtful.
Man: "Hmm... but they do contain all the vitamins I need."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic titled "Eventually, everything is normal," parodying the famous Soylent Green reveal. In the first panel, a bald, mustached man in a purple robe gestures wildly against a red background, shouting "Soylent Green is PEOPLE. PEEEEEOPLE!" In the second panel, labeled "LATER...," the same man, now calm and resigned, holds a yellow carton and says "Soylent Green is PEOPLE. HIGH CHOLESTEROL PEEEEOPLE!" — the horror having faded into mundane dietary nitpicking. The joke: even a shocking truth becomes ordinary over time. In the bonus votey panel, a rough sketch of the same man muses thoughtfully, "Hmm... but they do contain all the vitamins I need," rationalizing eating the people-product.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.