mutant-powers
Original: mutant-powers on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (dark-haired, wearing yellow visor-style sunglasses): My father was a famous mutant. He could shoot powerful lasers from his eyes.
Man (bald): Cyclops?
Panel 2:
Woman: Yes, but my mother was a regular human. I only got a little of dad's power.
Panel 3:
Woman: See the red dot on that fence.
Man: It's hard to see it in daylight.
Woman: Kinda.
(They look toward a wooden fence in the distance.)
Panel 4:
Woman: I guess the plus side is it doesn't affect your life very much.
Man: Oh. It has effects.
Panel 5:
Man: Effects you can scarcely imagine. Powers you have never contemplated.
Woman: Whoa.
Panel 6 (labeled "LATER"):
Older woman (with cat): You charge twice as much for cat-sitting, but they just love you so much, I feel like I have to pay!
(The dark-haired woman in yellow sunglasses smiles.)
Panel 7 (labeled "I AM A LIVING GOD"):
Close-up of the woman's face, her eyes glowing intense red.
Votey:
Close-up of the woman's face from the nose up, drawn in plain line art, wearing her sunglasses with a flat, deadpan expression.
Caption (her speech): With middling power comes middling responsibility.
Woman (dark-haired, wearing yellow visor-style sunglasses): My father was a famous mutant. He could shoot powerful lasers from his eyes.
Man (bald): Cyclops?
Panel 2:
Woman: Yes, but my mother was a regular human. I only got a little of dad's power.
Panel 3:
Woman: See the red dot on that fence.
Man: It's hard to see it in daylight.
Woman: Kinda.
(They look toward a wooden fence in the distance.)
Panel 4:
Woman: I guess the plus side is it doesn't affect your life very much.
Man: Oh. It has effects.
Panel 5:
Man: Effects you can scarcely imagine. Powers you have never contemplated.
Woman: Whoa.
Panel 6 (labeled "LATER"):
Older woman (with cat): You charge twice as much for cat-sitting, but they just love you so much, I feel like I have to pay!
(The dark-haired woman in yellow sunglasses smiles.)
Panel 7 (labeled "I AM A LIVING GOD"):
Close-up of the woman's face, her eyes glowing intense red.
Votey:
Close-up of the woman's face from the nose up, drawn in plain line art, wearing her sunglasses with a flat, deadpan expression.
Caption (her speech): With middling power comes middling responsibility.
Alt text
A seven-panel SMBC comic. A dark-haired woman wearing yellow visor-style sunglasses tells a bald man that her father was a famous laser-eyed mutant ("Cyclops?"), but since her mother was a regular human she only inherited a little of his power. She points to a barely-visible red dot on a distant fence; the man squints ("It's hard to see it in daylight"). She muses that the plus side is the weak power doesn't affect her life much. The man replies it has effects "you can scarcely imagine, powers you have never contemplated," and she says "Whoa." Labeled LATER: an older woman holding a cat gushes that she has to overpay the sunglasses woman for cat-sitting because the cats love her so much. Final panel, captioned I AM A LIVING GOD: an extreme close-up of the woman's face with her eyes glowing fiery red. Votey (aftercomic): a simple line-art close-up of her deadpan face in the sunglasses, with the caption "With middling power comes middling responsibility" — a riff on the Spider-Man line. The joke: her tiny laser-eye power is useless for combat but turns out to be a perfect cat magnet, making her a minor "god" of cat-sitting.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.