bonobos
Original: bonobos on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (dark hair): I wish human beings were as peaceful and loving as bonobos.
Panel 2:
Woman: Then find a way to make it happen! We are the greatest environmental modifiers in history! We can fashion our own happiness!
Panel 3:
Man (flame-like orange hair): Yes... yes, of course!
Bottom (newspaper headline):
MAN FOUND ARMING BONOBOS IN CONGO
Subheading: Uses primitive symbol language to promote racism
(The newspaper shows a photo of bonobos with a crude drawn symbol resembling "JX C" and "O + ?")
Votey:
(Close-up of the man's wide-eyed, sweating face. A speech bubble, coming from offscreen, reads:)
Now.
Destroy me.
Complete your destiny.
Woman (dark hair): I wish human beings were as peaceful and loving as bonobos.
Panel 2:
Woman: Then find a way to make it happen! We are the greatest environmental modifiers in history! We can fashion our own happiness!
Panel 3:
Man (flame-like orange hair): Yes... yes, of course!
Bottom (newspaper headline):
MAN FOUND ARMING BONOBOS IN CONGO
Subheading: Uses primitive symbol language to promote racism
(The newspaper shows a photo of bonobos with a crude drawn symbol resembling "JX C" and "O + ?")
Votey:
(Close-up of the man's wide-eyed, sweating face. A speech bubble, coming from offscreen, reads:)
Now.
Destroy me.
Complete your destiny.
Alt text
Three-panel comic. Panel 1: a dark-haired woman talks to an orange-haired man, saying "I wish human beings were as peaceful and loving as bonobos." Panel 2: the woman, enthusiastic, continues: "Then find a way to make it happen! We are the greatest environmental modifiers in history! We can fashion our own happiness!" Panel 3: the man replies eagerly, "Yes... yes, of course!" Below the panels is a newspaper with the headline "MAN FOUND ARMING BONOBOS IN CONGO" and a subheading "Uses primitive symbol language to promote racism," with a photo of bonobos beside crude scrawled symbols. The joke: his idealistic plan to make humans more bonobo-like went horribly wrong into something violent and absurd. Votey aftercomic: an extreme close-up of the man's wide-eyed, sweating, panicked face as a speech bubble from offscreen commands him, "Now. Destroy me. Complete your destiny."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.