heaven
Original: heaven on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with flame-like hair speaks to another man.
Flame-haired man: I don't believe in the concept of heaven, because the concept doesn't make sense.
Panel 2:
Flame-haired man: Nothing could be good in some way that we're still stuck in some kind of reality. Inevitably, some things will be bad, or boring, or will feel pointless.
Panel 3:
Flame-haired man: Imagine normal life, but everyone understands what your intentions were when you screwed up.
Panel 4:
The second man grabs the flame-haired man by the collar, desperate.
Second man: LET ME IN! I'LL DO ANYTHING!
Votey:
A wild-eyed man shouts.
Man: I WILL KILL THE HEATHENS!
A man with flame-like hair speaks to another man.
Flame-haired man: I don't believe in the concept of heaven, because the concept doesn't make sense.
Panel 2:
Flame-haired man: Nothing could be good in some way that we're still stuck in some kind of reality. Inevitably, some things will be bad, or boring, or will feel pointless.
Panel 3:
Flame-haired man: Imagine normal life, but everyone understands what your intentions were when you screwed up.
Panel 4:
The second man grabs the flame-haired man by the collar, desperate.
Second man: LET ME IN! I'LL DO ANYTHING!
Votey:
A wild-eyed man shouts.
Man: I WILL KILL THE HEATHENS!
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. In the first three panels, a calm man with flame-like hair explains to another man why he doesn't believe in the concept of heaven: the concept doesn't make sense, because in any reality some things will inevitably be bad, boring, or pointless. Then he offers a more modest vision: 'Imagine normal life, but everyone understands what your intentions were when you screwed up.' In the final panel the second man, suddenly desperate, grabs the speaker by the collar and shouts, 'LET ME IN! I'LL DO ANYTHING!' — the joke being that simply being understood when you mess up is heaven enough. Votey (aftercomic): a single panel of a wild-eyed, fervent man shouting 'I WILL KILL THE HEATHENS!', a zealot's overreaction.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.