2014-06-22
Original: 2014-06-22 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Cluster of men (speaking): Hey, I hope this doesn't seem weird, but I and my siblings have aggregated into a single biological unit in order to increase the chance that one of us will mate with you tonight.
Caption (below panel): I should never have dated in the slime mold lab.
Votey:
A woman with a worried expression (speaking): I know that's not how slime molds work. Please spare me your wrath!
Cluster of men (speaking): Hey, I hope this doesn't seem weird, but I and my siblings have aggregated into a single biological unit in order to increase the chance that one of us will mate with you tonight.
Caption (below panel): I should never have dated in the slime mold lab.
Votey:
A woman with a worried expression (speaking): I know that's not how slime molds work. Please spare me your wrath!
Alt text
Main comic, single panel: A clump of several men with reddish hair, all clinging and stacked together into one writhing mass of bodies, faces a woman shown in profile from behind. The collective mass says: "Hey, I hope this doesn't seem weird, but I and my siblings have aggregated into a single biological unit in order to increase the chance that one of us will mate with you tonight." A caption beneath reads: "I should never have dated in the slime mold lab." The joke: the man references the way cellular slime molds aggregate many individual cells into one fruiting body to reproduce.
Votey: A close-up line drawing of a woman with a nervous, pleading expression saying, "I know that's not how slime molds work. Please spare me your wrath!" — the artist preemptively apologizing to biology pedants.
Votey: A close-up line drawing of a woman with a nervous, pleading expression saying, "I know that's not how slime molds work. Please spare me your wrath!" — the artist preemptively apologizing to biology pedants.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.