2014-03-08
Original: 2014-03-08 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic (single panel):
The scene is the inside of a condom, depicted as a vast cosmos. Sperm cells of various sizes float and swim through the space, their flagella trailing behind them like comet tails. Two especially large sperm are positioned prominently in the panel.
Sperm 1: WHAT DO YOU THINK IS BEYOND THE LATEX?
Sperm 2: THAT IS AN ABSURD QUESTION. BY DEFINITION, THERE CAN BE NOTHING.
Caption (below panel): Sperm cosmology progressed slowly.
Votey:
A sperm (the one with the bigger speech bubble in the main panel) continues speaking.
Sperm: ANYWAY, SOON WE'LL ALL DIE IN THE GREAT DEFLATION.
The scene is the inside of a condom, depicted as a vast cosmos. Sperm cells of various sizes float and swim through the space, their flagella trailing behind them like comet tails. Two especially large sperm are positioned prominently in the panel.
Sperm 1: WHAT DO YOU THINK IS BEYOND THE LATEX?
Sperm 2: THAT IS AN ABSURD QUESTION. BY DEFINITION, THERE CAN BE NOTHING.
Caption (below panel): Sperm cosmology progressed slowly.
Votey:
A sperm (the one with the bigger speech bubble in the main panel) continues speaking.
Sperm: ANYWAY, SOON WE'LL ALL DIE IN THE GREAT DEFLATION.
Alt text
A single-panel comic set inside a condom, drawn like a vast cosmos. Sperm cells of various sizes drift and swim through a pale yellow void, their wiggly tails trailing like comet streaks. Two large sperm face each other. One asks, 'What do you think is beyond the latex?' The other replies, 'That is an absurd question. By definition, there can be nothing.' A caption below reads: 'Sperm cosmology progressed slowly.' The joke parodies cosmologists debating what lies beyond the observable universe. In the votey aftercomic, one sperm adds an apocalyptic afterthought: 'Anyway, soon we'll all die in the great deflation.'—riffing on cosmic 'heat death'/Big Crunch theories, here applied to the condom collapsing.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.