2013-09-27
Original: 2013-09-27 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with red hair and glasses: We'll put the missile bases at these Lagrange points.
Panel 2:
A bearded man (also red-haired woman beside him, and a smiling bald man behind them): But points 1, 2, and 3 are unstable.
Red-haired woman (grinning): All the more reason for the United Nations to fear us.
Panel 3:
(Two onlookers in the foreground watch a stage where the bearded man, the red-haired woman, and the bald man stand. The red-haired woman holds up a green sign showing a circle with three blades, like a peace sign.)
Onlooker: Whoa! The engineers are holding a peace rally.
Votey:
Caption (handwritten): See because it looks like a peace sign
(A drawing of a circle containing three angled blades meeting at a central hub, resembling a peace symbol. The blades and points are labeled with numbers: 3 at the top, 4 on the right, 5 on the lower left, 2 at the bottom, and 1 near the center.)
Woman with red hair and glasses: We'll put the missile bases at these Lagrange points.
Panel 2:
A bearded man (also red-haired woman beside him, and a smiling bald man behind them): But points 1, 2, and 3 are unstable.
Red-haired woman (grinning): All the more reason for the United Nations to fear us.
Panel 3:
(Two onlookers in the foreground watch a stage where the bearded man, the red-haired woman, and the bald man stand. The red-haired woman holds up a green sign showing a circle with three blades, like a peace sign.)
Onlooker: Whoa! The engineers are holding a peace rally.
Votey:
Caption (handwritten): See because it looks like a peace sign
(A drawing of a circle containing three angled blades meeting at a central hub, resembling a peace symbol. The blades and points are labeled with numbers: 3 at the top, 4 on the right, 5 on the lower left, 2 at the bottom, and 1 near the center.)
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A red-haired woman in glasses says, "We'll put the missile bases at these Lagrange points." Panel 2: A bearded man replies, "But points 1, 2, and 3 are unstable," while the grinning red-haired woman answers, "All the more reason for the United Nations to fear us." A bald man smiles behind them. Panel 3: Two onlookers in the foreground watch the three engineers on a stage; the woman holds up a green sign bearing a circle with three blades. One onlooker exclaims, "Whoa! The engineers are holding a peace rally." The joke: their militaristic diagram of the five Lagrange points happens to resemble a peace symbol. Votey: A hand-drawn diagram of a circle with three angled blades meeting at a center hub, looking like a peace sign, with the five Lagrange points numbered (3 top, 4 right, 5 lower left, 2 bottom, 1 center). Caption: "See because it looks like a peace sign."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.