fossils-2
Original: fossils-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: An aide bursts through a door into an office.
Aide: Mr. President! An asteroid is headed directly for Los Angeles! We have 72 hours until impact!
Panel 2: A bald, bearded man (the President) sits at a desk, holding a hand to his face.
President: Get me a scientist!
Panel 3: A woman with reddish-brown hair speaks on a phone.
Woman (scientist): My god. It'll have a destructive radius of hundreds of miles. There's no time to lose!
Panel 4: Caption banner: 71 HOURS LATER...
Woman (scientist), on the phone: Great news, Mr. President! We've set up robust seismic detectors along the entire blast area!
Panel 5: The woman continues talking on the phone, looking pleased.
Panel 6: The President sits at his desk holding a phone to his ear, expressionless.
Panel 7: Wide shot of the President alone at the Oval Office desk, head buried in his hands in despair, flags behind him.
Panel 8: The woman, still cheerfully on the phone.
Woman (scientist): The data is gonna be amazing!
Votey:
A close-up of a fierce, spiky-haired/horned creature face (a triceratops-like dinosaur).
Dinosaur (speech bubble): Time to throw in ape-people bones
Aide: Mr. President! An asteroid is headed directly for Los Angeles! We have 72 hours until impact!
Panel 2: A bald, bearded man (the President) sits at a desk, holding a hand to his face.
President: Get me a scientist!
Panel 3: A woman with reddish-brown hair speaks on a phone.
Woman (scientist): My god. It'll have a destructive radius of hundreds of miles. There's no time to lose!
Panel 4: Caption banner: 71 HOURS LATER...
Woman (scientist), on the phone: Great news, Mr. President! We've set up robust seismic detectors along the entire blast area!
Panel 5: The woman continues talking on the phone, looking pleased.
Panel 6: The President sits at his desk holding a phone to his ear, expressionless.
Panel 7: Wide shot of the President alone at the Oval Office desk, head buried in his hands in despair, flags behind him.
Panel 8: The woman, still cheerfully on the phone.
Woman (scientist): The data is gonna be amazing!
Votey:
A close-up of a fierce, spiky-haired/horned creature face (a triceratops-like dinosaur).
Dinosaur (speech bubble): Time to throw in ape-people bones
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic. An aide rushes in to tell the President an asteroid will hit Los Angeles in 72 hours. The bald, bearded President says 'Get me a scientist!' A red-haired woman scientist on the phone responds gravely, 'My god... there's no time to lose!' A caption reads '71 hours later...' and she cheerfully reports, 'Great news, Mr. President! We've set up robust seismic detectors along the entire blast area!' The President listens on the phone, then is shown alone at the Oval Office desk with his head buried in his hands in despair, while the scientist, oblivious, beams, 'The data is gonna be amazing!' The joke: faced with imminent catastrophe, the scientist treats it as a data-collection opportunity rather than a disaster to prevent. The votey is a close-up of a fierce triceratops-like dinosaur face saying 'Time to throw in ape-people bones' — implying future humans will become fossils studied the same way, a callback to dinosaur extinction by asteroid.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.