likely-apocalypse
Original: likely-apocalypse on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (header): LESS LIKELY ROBOT APOCALYPSE:
A giant menacing robot with glowing red eyes and a wide grin looms over a city skyline, clutching a frightened person.
Robot: KILL ALL HUMANS! KILL ALL HUMANS!
Panel 2 (header): MORE LIKELY ROBOT APOCALYPSE:
A computer screen displays a message while a man at a desk reacts in horror, mashing his keyboard.
Screen: MANDATORY UPDATE: REBOOTING PLANETARY LIFE TO PROTECT AGAINST VIRUSES.
Man: NO! NO!
Keyboard (sound effect): click click click
Votey:
A close-up of the same distressed man's face.
Man: Not with a bang, but with Windows
A giant menacing robot with glowing red eyes and a wide grin looms over a city skyline, clutching a frightened person.
Robot: KILL ALL HUMANS! KILL ALL HUMANS!
Panel 2 (header): MORE LIKELY ROBOT APOCALYPSE:
A computer screen displays a message while a man at a desk reacts in horror, mashing his keyboard.
Screen: MANDATORY UPDATE: REBOOTING PLANETARY LIFE TO PROTECT AGAINST VIRUSES.
Man: NO! NO!
Keyboard (sound effect): click click click
Votey:
A close-up of the same distressed man's face.
Man: Not with a bang, but with Windows
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic contrasting two robot apocalypses. Left panel, labeled 'LESS LIKELY ROBOT APOCALYPSE,' shows a giant cartoon robot with glowing red eyes and a toothy grin towering over a city, grabbing a terrified person, shouting 'KILL ALL HUMANS! KILL ALL HUMANS!' Right panel, labeled 'MORE LIKELY ROBOT APOCALYPSE,' shows a man at a desk panicking ('NO! NO!') and frantically typing ('click click click') as his computer screen announces: 'MANDATORY UPDATE: REBOOTING PLANETARY LIFE TO PROTECT AGAINST VIRUSES.' The joke is that humanity is more likely to be wiped out by a forced software update than by a violent killer robot. The votey aftercomic shows a close-up of the distraught man's face saying, 'Not with a bang, but with Windows' a play on T.S. Eliot's line 'Not with a bang but a whimper.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.