pale-blue-dot
Original: pale-blue-dot on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (Hank): IT'S WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU HOME AGAIN.
Panel 2:
Woman (an astronaut, returned from space): I'M SO CHANGED!
Panel 3:
Woman: HANK, I'VE SEEN EARTH FROM SPACE! IT'S SO SMALL... SO FRAGILE.
Panel 4:
Woman: ALL WE DO HERE IS SO MINUSCULE. SO SILLY. THE FIGHTS, THE SQUABBLES. IT'S ALL SO POINTLESS!
Panel 5:
Hank: YOU'RE GONNA GO BACK TO DOING YOUR SHARE OF THE HOUSEWORK NOW THAT YOU'RE BACK, RIGHT?
Woman: I'M NOT, HANK.
Panel 6:
Woman: I'M NOT GONNA DO SHIT.
(The two embrace; the woman has tears streaming down her face.)
Votey:
Woman (speech bubble): I'm gonna go kill some people because Earth is small.
Man (Hank): IT'S WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU HOME AGAIN.
Panel 2:
Woman (an astronaut, returned from space): I'M SO CHANGED!
Panel 3:
Woman: HANK, I'VE SEEN EARTH FROM SPACE! IT'S SO SMALL... SO FRAGILE.
Panel 4:
Woman: ALL WE DO HERE IS SO MINUSCULE. SO SILLY. THE FIGHTS, THE SQUABBLES. IT'S ALL SO POINTLESS!
Panel 5:
Hank: YOU'RE GONNA GO BACK TO DOING YOUR SHARE OF THE HOUSEWORK NOW THAT YOU'RE BACK, RIGHT?
Woman: I'M NOT, HANK.
Panel 6:
Woman: I'M NOT GONNA DO SHIT.
(The two embrace; the woman has tears streaming down her face.)
Votey:
Woman (speech bubble): I'm gonna go kill some people because Earth is small.
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A man (Hank) welcomes home a woman wearing an astronaut/uniform jacket. Panel 1, Hank: "It's wonderful to have you home again." Panel 2, woman: "I'm so changed!" Panel 3, woman, gazing seriously: "Hank, I've seen Earth from space! It's so small... so fragile." Panel 4, woman, impassioned: "All we do here is so minuscule. So silly. The fights, the squabbles. It's all so pointless!" Panel 5, Hank: "You're gonna go back to doing your share of the housework now that you're back, right?" Woman: "I'm not, Hank." Panel 6, the two embrace as the woman cries tears of relief: "I'm not gonna do shit." The joke: her cosmic enlightenment conveniently exempts her from chores. Votey: a close-up of the woman's face with a speech bubble taking the bit darker: "I'm gonna go kill some people because Earth is small."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.