moonshot
Original: moonshot on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Wealthy man (clean-shaven, in a suit): I will pay you 100 million dollars to send me around the moon and back.
Panel 2
Bearded man with glasses: Really? That's brave. You know on the far side of the moon, you'll be unable to send or receive any signals from Earth.
Panel 3
Wealthy man: Gee, that's too bad but I think I'd like to do it anyway.
Panel 4 (caption: LATER...)
[A small triangular spacecraft drifts in space near the moon.]
Panel 5
[The spacecraft approaches the cratered surface of the moon, the blue Earth visible in the distance behind it.]
Panel 6
[The spacecraft passes over the lunar surface, Earth now low on the horizon.]
Panel 7
[Interior of the capsule: the bearded man sits looking out.]
Panel 8
[Interior: the wealthy man, now looking out his window, mouth open as if about to speak.]
Panel 9
[Wide shot of space. The spacecraft is on the far side of the moon. A speech bubble points from it.]
Wealthy man: I liked the Star Wars prequellls!
Votey:
Hand-lettered text in a black square frame: TELL US THE TRUTH, MUSK!
Wealthy man (clean-shaven, in a suit): I will pay you 100 million dollars to send me around the moon and back.
Panel 2
Bearded man with glasses: Really? That's brave. You know on the far side of the moon, you'll be unable to send or receive any signals from Earth.
Panel 3
Wealthy man: Gee, that's too bad but I think I'd like to do it anyway.
Panel 4 (caption: LATER...)
[A small triangular spacecraft drifts in space near the moon.]
Panel 5
[The spacecraft approaches the cratered surface of the moon, the blue Earth visible in the distance behind it.]
Panel 6
[The spacecraft passes over the lunar surface, Earth now low on the horizon.]
Panel 7
[Interior of the capsule: the bearded man sits looking out.]
Panel 8
[Interior: the wealthy man, now looking out his window, mouth open as if about to speak.]
Panel 9
[Wide shot of space. The spacecraft is on the far side of the moon. A speech bubble points from it.]
Wealthy man: I liked the Star Wars prequellls!
Votey:
Hand-lettered text in a black square frame: TELL US THE TRUTH, MUSK!
Alt text
A nine-panel SMBC comic. In the first three panels, a clean-shaven man in a suit offers a bearded, bespectacled man 100 million dollars to send him around the moon and back. The bearded man warns that on the far side of the moon he'll be unable to send or receive any signals from Earth. The suited man replies, "Gee, that's too bad but I think I'd like to do it anyway." After a "LATER..." caption, a small triangular spacecraft is shown traveling to and around the moon, with Earth shrinking in the distance, then interior shots of the two men inside the capsule. In the final wide panel, the ship is on the far side of the moon, fully cut off from Earth, and the rich man shouts from a speech bubble: "I liked the Star Wars prequellls!" The joke: he wanted privacy beyond Earth's reach to confess his most embarrassing opinion. Votey (aftercomic): a black-framed square with hand-lettered text reading "TELL US THE TRUTH, MUSK!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.