mandelbrot
Original: mandelbrot on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with orange hair (to a woman beside him): Oh, dammit. Here comes Mandelbrot.
Panel 2:
Woman: Why don't you like him?
Orange-haired man: He's always trying to get people to look at his mole.
Panel 3:
A balding man wearing glasses approaches, smiling: Hey guys! Wanna see something?
Panel 4:
Close-up on the side of the balding man's face, showing a mole on his cheek. The mole itself is a tiny image of the Mandelbrot set fractal.
Votey:
Close-up sketch of the man's face turned toward the mole. A speech bubble (from off-panel) reads: So disgustingly mesmerizing.
Man with orange hair (to a woman beside him): Oh, dammit. Here comes Mandelbrot.
Panel 2:
Woman: Why don't you like him?
Orange-haired man: He's always trying to get people to look at his mole.
Panel 3:
A balding man wearing glasses approaches, smiling: Hey guys! Wanna see something?
Panel 4:
Close-up on the side of the balding man's face, showing a mole on his cheek. The mole itself is a tiny image of the Mandelbrot set fractal.
Votey:
Close-up sketch of the man's face turned toward the mole. A speech bubble (from off-panel) reads: So disgustingly mesmerizing.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: An orange-haired man stands with a woman and mutters, "Oh, dammit. Here comes Mandelbrot." Panel 2: The woman asks, "Why don't you like him?" and he replies, "He's always trying to get people to look at his mole." Panel 3: A smiling, balding man in glasses walks up and says, "Hey guys! Wanna see something?" Panel 4: An extreme close-up of the side of his face reveals that the mole on his cheek is actually a tiny Mandelbrot set fractal—the pun being that the man named Mandelbrot has a mole shaped like the famous Mandelbrot fractal. Votey: A sketched close-up of the man gazing at his own mole as an off-panel voice says, "So disgustingly mesmerizing," implying the infinitely detailed fractal is impossible to stop staring at.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.