cucurbits
Original: cucurbits on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
First figure (a winged angelic being): Hey God, whatcha doin'?
Panel 2:
God (a figure with a halo, working on a plant): Making a new family of plants. I call it Cucurbitaceae.
Panel 3:
God: It contains long, hard, girthy squashes and gourds with smooth exteriors, as well as plump round melons with moist yielding interiors.
Panel 4:
First figure (recoiling): I... would really not put that near the humans.
God: Why?
Panel 5:
First figure: You might gain some... knowledge you'd rather not have.
Panel 6 (captioned "Later..."):
God (shouting): And stay away from the tree of knowledge!
(Below, two small human figures stand looking on.)
Caption at bottom: This bonus comic courtesy buyers of 'Soonish.' Click for more info!
Votey:
An off-panel voice (in a speech bubble): You have filthy minds!
(The scene shows two human-like figures at the lower left looking on, and at the lower right a cluster of suggestively-shaped squash/gourd plants growing.)
First figure (a winged angelic being): Hey God, whatcha doin'?
Panel 2:
God (a figure with a halo, working on a plant): Making a new family of plants. I call it Cucurbitaceae.
Panel 3:
God: It contains long, hard, girthy squashes and gourds with smooth exteriors, as well as plump round melons with moist yielding interiors.
Panel 4:
First figure (recoiling): I... would really not put that near the humans.
God: Why?
Panel 5:
First figure: You might gain some... knowledge you'd rather not have.
Panel 6 (captioned "Later..."):
God (shouting): And stay away from the tree of knowledge!
(Below, two small human figures stand looking on.)
Caption at bottom: This bonus comic courtesy buyers of 'Soonish.' Click for more info!
Votey:
An off-panel voice (in a speech bubble): You have filthy minds!
(The scene shows two human-like figures at the lower left looking on, and at the lower right a cluster of suggestively-shaped squash/gourd plants growing.)
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. An angelic winged figure approaches God, who has a halo and is tending a plant, and asks what he's doing. God says he's making a new family of plants called Cucurbitaceae. He describes it as containing 'long, hard, girthy squashes and gourds with smooth exteriors, as well as plump round melons with moist yielding interiors.' The winged figure recoils and says he'd 'really not put that near the humans,' warning that they 'might gain some... knowledge you'd rather not have.' In the final panel, labeled 'Later...', God shouts at two tiny humans below: 'And stay away from the tree of knowledge!' A bottom caption reads: 'This bonus comic courtesy buyers of Soonish. Click for more info!' The joke: God's innocently-described squashes and melons sound like sexual innuendo, the real source of forbidden carnal knowledge. Votey (aftercomic): a sketchy black-and-white panel where an off-panel voice protests 'You have filthy minds!' while two small figures look at a cluster of suggestively phallic, bulging gourd plants.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.