2012-08-15
Original: 2012-08-15 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title caption (orange banner): THE COSMOLOGICAL RORSCHACH TEST: WHAT IS THE FIRST UNIVERSE SOMEONE IMAGINES AFTER LEARNING MULTIVERSE THEORY?
Panel 1:
A man with red/orange hair, seated at a small table across from a woman with brown hair, gestures with one hand.
Man: "SO THERE'S A UNIVERSE WHERE WOMEN ARE SMARTER THAN MEN?"
Woman: "ANNNND YOU'VE FAILED."
Votey:
A hand-drawn, sketchy black-and-white panel. A bearded man lies back (apparently in bed) while a figure wearing glasses leans over him.
Bearded man (thought/speech): "SO THERE'S A UNIVERSE WHERE COMICS MATTER?"
Figure with glasses: "NOPE"
Panel 1:
A man with red/orange hair, seated at a small table across from a woman with brown hair, gestures with one hand.
Man: "SO THERE'S A UNIVERSE WHERE WOMEN ARE SMARTER THAN MEN?"
Woman: "ANNNND YOU'VE FAILED."
Votey:
A hand-drawn, sketchy black-and-white panel. A bearded man lies back (apparently in bed) while a figure wearing glasses leans over him.
Bearded man (thought/speech): "SO THERE'S A UNIVERSE WHERE COMICS MATTER?"
Figure with glasses: "NOPE"
Alt text
An SMBC comic. An orange title banner reads: 'The Cosmological Rorschach Test: What is the first universe someone imagines after learning multiverse theory?' The single colored panel shows a red-haired man sitting at a small table across from a brown-haired woman, a coffee mug between them. He gestures and asks, 'So there's a universe where women are smarter than men?' She replies flatly, 'Annnnd you've failed.' The joke: his immediate go-to imagined universe reveals his own bias. Votey (a small rough black-and-white aftercomic): a bearded man lying down, with a bespectacled figure leaning over him. He asks, 'So there's a universe where comics matter?' The figure answers, 'Nope.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.