the-lone-kryptonian
Original: the-lone-kryptonian on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (dark-haired, in pink): We can't have a baby, Clark. It's too risky.
Man (Superman-like figure, in blue and red costume): But I put on my babymaking suit and everything!
Panel 2:
Woman: Even supposing that I can successfully bear your child as far as we know, there's some probability it will be a super-child.
Panel 3:
Man: Society accepts you because your ethics align with its highest aspirations. But what about our children and their children?
Panel 4:
Woman: If we have a baby, we're creating a genetically superior human species. Two such species cannot co-exist for long.
Panel 5:
Man: Look at it from the perspective of MY species. I'm the last Kryptonian. By choosing against our desire for children, you're eliminating that lineage.
Panel 6:
Woman: Either you CERTAINLY eliminate a superior species, or you POSSIBLY eliminate an inferior species, while playing Eve to a lineage of heroes and champions.
Panel 7:
Caption: 30 YEARS EARLIER...
Man (older, with a child): And then we send the baby to Earth with a note saying "Krypton is no more." "Ten generations later, BAM! Colony of Kryptonians."
Votey:
(No dialogue. A close-up image of the Superman-like character's bare midriff/abdomen, showing his costume's collar and chest, with his belly button visible.)
Woman (dark-haired, in pink): We can't have a baby, Clark. It's too risky.
Man (Superman-like figure, in blue and red costume): But I put on my babymaking suit and everything!
Panel 2:
Woman: Even supposing that I can successfully bear your child as far as we know, there's some probability it will be a super-child.
Panel 3:
Man: Society accepts you because your ethics align with its highest aspirations. But what about our children and their children?
Panel 4:
Woman: If we have a baby, we're creating a genetically superior human species. Two such species cannot co-exist for long.
Panel 5:
Man: Look at it from the perspective of MY species. I'm the last Kryptonian. By choosing against our desire for children, you're eliminating that lineage.
Panel 6:
Woman: Either you CERTAINLY eliminate a superior species, or you POSSIBLY eliminate an inferior species, while playing Eve to a lineage of heroes and champions.
Panel 7:
Caption: 30 YEARS EARLIER...
Man (older, with a child): And then we send the baby to Earth with a note saying "Krypton is no more." "Ten generations later, BAM! Colony of Kryptonians."
Votey:
(No dialogue. A close-up image of the Superman-like character's bare midriff/abdomen, showing his costume's collar and chest, with his belly button visible.)
Alt text
A seven-panel SMBC comic. A dark-haired woman in pink and a Superman-like man in a blue-and-red costume (addressed as Clark) debate having a baby. She says they can't, it's too risky; he protests that he put on his "babymaking suit" and everything. She argues that any child could be a "super-child," creating a genetically superior human species, and that two such species cannot co-exist for long. He counters from the perspective of his own species, calling himself the last Kryptonian and saying refusing children eliminates that lineage. She frames the choice: certainly eliminate a superior species, or possibly eliminate an inferior one while playing Eve to a lineage of heroes. The final panel jumps to "30 YEARS EARLIER..." showing an older man with a baby, explaining the plan to send the baby to Earth with a note saying Krypton is no more, so that ten generations later there will be a colony of Kryptonians. The votey is a wordless close-up of the Superman-like character's bare belly and chest, showing his costume's collar and his exposed midriff with belly button visible.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.