black-swan
Original: black-swan on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with curly dark hair and glasses (red scarf): NASSIM TALEB WROTE THIS FAMOUS BOOK CALLED "THE BLACK SWAN."
Panel 2:
Same woman: THE IDEA IS THAT SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE THINGS HAPPEN PRETTY FREQUENTLY.
Panel 3:
Same woman: FOR INSTANCE, YOU COULD WRITE A WHOLE BOOK BASED ON A SINGLE WELL-KNOWN CONCEPT AND HAVE IT TURN OUT TO BE A BESTSELLER.
Panel 4:
The other figure (the red-haired person she is talking with), dryly: PFFT. WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THAT?
Votey:
A bearded man (off-panel speaker), shouting up at the sky: C'monnnn black swan of hatemail.
Woman with curly dark hair and glasses (red scarf): NASSIM TALEB WROTE THIS FAMOUS BOOK CALLED "THE BLACK SWAN."
Panel 2:
Same woman: THE IDEA IS THAT SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE THINGS HAPPEN PRETTY FREQUENTLY.
Panel 3:
Same woman: FOR INSTANCE, YOU COULD WRITE A WHOLE BOOK BASED ON A SINGLE WELL-KNOWN CONCEPT AND HAVE IT TURN OUT TO BE A BESTSELLER.
Panel 4:
The other figure (the red-haired person she is talking with), dryly: PFFT. WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THAT?
Votey:
A bearded man (off-panel speaker), shouting up at the sky: C'monnnn black swan of hatemail.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Two people stand outside on a snowy night under a dark starry sky. A woman with curly dark hair, glasses, and a red scarf is explaining to a red-haired companion. Panel 1, she says Nassim Taleb wrote this famous book called "The Black Swan." Panel 2: The idea is that seemingly impossible things happen pretty frequently. Panel 3 (shown from far away, the two as tiny silhouettes): For instance, you could write a whole book based on a single well-known concept and have it turn out to be a bestseller. Panel 4: The red-haired companion replies dryly, Pfft. What are the odds of that? The joke: a wildly successful book built on one simple idea is itself the unlikely-yet-common 'black swan' event being described. Votey (aftercomic): a bearded man tilts his head back and shouts up at the empty sky, C'monnnn black swan of hatemail, daring an improbable flood of angry mail to arrive.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.