virus
Original: virus on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (wearing round glasses, green sweater): Do you think viruses are truly alive?
Panel 2:
Man (in profile): Nah. They're just barely getting by.
Woman: Huh?
Panel 3:
Banner across top: ELSEWHERE...
A virus particle (round, spiky/capsid-like, sitting on a couch): Too tired to write my novel. Too awake to go to sleep.
Votey:
A loosely sketched virus particle, slumped:
Virus: *sigh* another night alone as an acellular particle.
Woman (wearing round glasses, green sweater): Do you think viruses are truly alive?
Panel 2:
Man (in profile): Nah. They're just barely getting by.
Woman: Huh?
Panel 3:
Banner across top: ELSEWHERE...
A virus particle (round, spiky/capsid-like, sitting on a couch): Too tired to write my novel. Too awake to go to sleep.
Votey:
A loosely sketched virus particle, slumped:
Virus: *sigh* another night alone as an acellular particle.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic. Panels 1-2: a woman in round glasses asks a man, "Do you think viruses are truly alive?" He replies, "Nah. They're just barely getting by," and she responds, "Huh?" Panel 3, labeled "ELSEWHERE...", shows a lumpy spiky virus particle slumped on a red couch, saying, "Too tired to write my novel. Too awake to go to sleep" -- depicting the virus as a depressed, listless person, the punchline to "just barely getting by." Votey: a rough sketch of a slouching virus particle sighing, "another night alone as an acellular particle."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.