coordination
Original: coordination on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with dark hair and glasses (to a man in a tan cap): Hey, I need to buy some graph paper for my students. Is there a convenience store near here?
Panel 2:
Man in the tan cap: Yeah, just two miles away from campus.
Panel 3 (caption: LATER...):
A person with dark curly hair and glasses drives a blue car with a license plate reading "EIPI1". A musical note floats from the car, indicating they are humming/whistling contentedly.
Panel 4:
Driver (eyes wide, alarmed): Wait, he didn't specify a coordinate system.
Panel 5 (wide bottom panel):
The blue car (license plate "EIPI1") goes flying off a ramp into the air above a city, a "WOOOOO" sound trail streaming behind it as the driver and a passenger ride along.
Votey:
A close-up of a man's face, eyes wide with dread.
Man: My God. I'm going to die.
Woman with dark hair and glasses (to a man in a tan cap): Hey, I need to buy some graph paper for my students. Is there a convenience store near here?
Panel 2:
Man in the tan cap: Yeah, just two miles away from campus.
Panel 3 (caption: LATER...):
A person with dark curly hair and glasses drives a blue car with a license plate reading "EIPI1". A musical note floats from the car, indicating they are humming/whistling contentedly.
Panel 4:
Driver (eyes wide, alarmed): Wait, he didn't specify a coordinate system.
Panel 5 (wide bottom panel):
The blue car (license plate "EIPI1") goes flying off a ramp into the air above a city, a "WOOOOO" sound trail streaming behind it as the driver and a passenger ride along.
Votey:
A close-up of a man's face, eyes wide with dread.
Man: My God. I'm going to die.
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a woman with dark hair and glasses asks a man in a tan cap, "Hey, I need to buy some graph paper for my students. Is there a convenience store near here?" Panel 2: close on the man, who answers, "Yeah, just two miles away from campus." Panel 3, captioned "LATER...": a person with curly hair and glasses drives a blue car (license plate "EIPI1") humming happily, shown by a musical note. Panel 4: the driver's eyes go wide as they realize, "Wait, he didn't specify a coordinate system." Panel 5: a wide shot of the blue car launching off a ramp and flying through the air over a city, a "WOOOOO" trail behind it. The joke: "two miles away" gives a distance but no direction or origin, so the car ends up driving off into space. Votey: an extreme close-up of a man's terrified, wide-eyed face saying, "My God. I'm going to die."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.