2012-07-05
Original: 2012-07-05 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
A caped villain (later named Baron Blade) confronts a green-and-blue robotic/masked hero.
Hero: NOT SO FAST, BARON BLADE! IT IS THE REGENERATING RAY!
Panel 2
A buzzsaw flies toward the hero.
Baron Blade: SUCK ON BUZZSAW, REGEN-JERK!
Panel 3
The buzzsaw splits the hero down the middle into two halves.
Hero: HA! YOUR WEAPONS HAVE NO EFFECT! I WILL SIMPLY REGAIN THE LOST PARTS!
Panel 4
The two halves have each regenerated into a complete, identical hero.
Baron Blade: WHICH OF YOU SAID THAT?
One hero: ME!
Panel 5
The two identical heroes face each other.
Hero (left): BUT I'M THE REAL ME! I HAVE ALL OF MY MEMORIES!
Hero (right): SO DO I!
Panel 6
The two heroes, now alarmed.
Hero (left): OH MY GOD. WHAT IF LIFE ISN'T DISCRETE?!
Hero (right): WHAT IF IT'S JUST THE CONTINUANCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS?!
Panel 7
Baron Blade looks on as the two heroes spiral.
Baron Blade: IF THAT'S TRUE, DO YOU DIE EVERY NIGHT WHEN YOU GO TO SLEEP?
Hero: OR EVEN WHENEVER YOU LOSE YOUR TRAIN OF THOUGHT!
Panel 8 (caption banner: LATER...)
A bald man in a suit speaks to Baron Blade, proposing an alliance.
Man: HELLO, BARON BLADE.
Man: AN ALLIANCE...
Baron Blade: THE EXISTENTIALITY... WHAT DO YOU WANT?
Votey:
A pale, navel-gazing figure shown from the chest up against a dark background.
Caption: The Existentialist
"It's navel-gazin' time!"
A caped villain (later named Baron Blade) confronts a green-and-blue robotic/masked hero.
Hero: NOT SO FAST, BARON BLADE! IT IS THE REGENERATING RAY!
Panel 2
A buzzsaw flies toward the hero.
Baron Blade: SUCK ON BUZZSAW, REGEN-JERK!
Panel 3
The buzzsaw splits the hero down the middle into two halves.
Hero: HA! YOUR WEAPONS HAVE NO EFFECT! I WILL SIMPLY REGAIN THE LOST PARTS!
Panel 4
The two halves have each regenerated into a complete, identical hero.
Baron Blade: WHICH OF YOU SAID THAT?
One hero: ME!
Panel 5
The two identical heroes face each other.
Hero (left): BUT I'M THE REAL ME! I HAVE ALL OF MY MEMORIES!
Hero (right): SO DO I!
Panel 6
The two heroes, now alarmed.
Hero (left): OH MY GOD. WHAT IF LIFE ISN'T DISCRETE?!
Hero (right): WHAT IF IT'S JUST THE CONTINUANCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS?!
Panel 7
Baron Blade looks on as the two heroes spiral.
Baron Blade: IF THAT'S TRUE, DO YOU DIE EVERY NIGHT WHEN YOU GO TO SLEEP?
Hero: OR EVEN WHENEVER YOU LOSE YOUR TRAIN OF THOUGHT!
Panel 8 (caption banner: LATER...)
A bald man in a suit speaks to Baron Blade, proposing an alliance.
Man: HELLO, BARON BLADE.
Man: AN ALLIANCE...
Baron Blade: THE EXISTENTIALITY... WHAT DO YOU WANT?
Votey:
A pale, navel-gazing figure shown from the chest up against a dark background.
Caption: The Existentialist
"It's navel-gazin' time!"
Alt text
An eight-panel comic. A green-and-blue robotic hero faces a caped villain (later called Baron Blade) and boasts about his 'regenerating ray.' Baron Blade flings a buzzsaw, yelling 'Suck on buzzsaw, regen-jerk!', and it splits the hero cleanly down the middle into two halves. The hero declares his weapon has no effect because he'll just regenerate the lost parts; each half indeed regrows into a complete, identical copy. The two identical heroes argue over which is 'the real me,' each insisting he has all the original memories. They then panic into an existential spiral: 'What if life isn't discrete?! What if it's just the continuance of consciousness?!' Baron Blade fuels it by asking whether they die every night when they sleep, and one hero adds 'or even whenever you lose your train of thought!' A 'LATER...' banner shows a bald man in a suit proposing an alliance to Baron Blade, introducing himself as 'The Existentiality'; Baron Blade asks what he wants. Votey panel: a pale figure shown from the chest up against a dark background, captioned 'The Existentialist - It's navel-gazin' time!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.