rain
Original: rain on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with red hair: God, why'd you create conservation of energy? Why can't you get something for nothing?
God (a glowing golden disc): But you can.
Panel 2:
Man with red hair: You mean like... how we gain from intangible things, like friendship, love, compassion?
God: No, like from magnets.
Panel 3:
God: Watch, you just take magnets and put them in a circle. Drop in a piece of iron and WHAM! It goes around forever. Free energy.
(Below, the man stands near a circular ring of magnets on the ground.)
Panel 4:
God: Honestly, how did you guys miss this?
Man with red hair (now looking grim): We have to kill all the physicists.
Votey:
A man's face (sketchy line-drawing style).
Man: Not for fame. Strictly for evil.
Man with red hair: God, why'd you create conservation of energy? Why can't you get something for nothing?
God (a glowing golden disc): But you can.
Panel 2:
Man with red hair: You mean like... how we gain from intangible things, like friendship, love, compassion?
God: No, like from magnets.
Panel 3:
God: Watch, you just take magnets and put them in a circle. Drop in a piece of iron and WHAM! It goes around forever. Free energy.
(Below, the man stands near a circular ring of magnets on the ground.)
Panel 4:
God: Honestly, how did you guys miss this?
Man with red hair (now looking grim): We have to kill all the physicists.
Votey:
A man's face (sketchy line-drawing style).
Man: Not for fame. Strictly for evil.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A man with red, flame-like hair speaks with God, who appears as a glowing golden disc. Panel 1, the man asks: "God, why'd you create conservation of energy? Why can't you get something for nothing?" God replies, "But you can." Panel 2, the man asks if he means gaining from intangible things like friendship, love, and compassion; God says, "No, like from magnets." Panel 3, God explains a perpetual-motion machine: take magnets, put them in a circle, drop in a piece of iron, and "WHAM! It goes around forever. Free energy," while the man stands by a ring of magnets on the ground. Panel 4, God asks, "Honestly, how did you guys miss this?" and the man, looking grim, answers, "We have to kill all the physicists." Votey aftercomic: a rough line-drawing of a man's face saying, "Not for fame. Strictly for evil."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.