extinction
Original: extinction on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A balding scientist in a lab coat looks at a monitor/window.
Scientist (off-panel, behind): "How's it look?"
Balding scientist: "Not good. There's one male and three females left."
Panel 2: A view through a window of an observation room; rhinos visible outside.
Balding scientist: "That's not ideal, but it should be possible to breed more offspring."
Panel 3: The bearded, bespectacled scientist stands among colleagues.
Bearded scientist: "Unfortunately, the last male is one of those guys who gets really irritated about improper semicolon usage."
Panel 4: Outside, a rhino stands in a field; another rhino reads an open book on the ground in the background.
Off-panel (a colleague): "Preceding a conjunction? Really?!"
Panel 5: Close-up of the bearded scientist's face, looking grim.
Bearded scientist: "Usage."
Panel 6: The field. A rhino looks angrily at an open book lying on the grass; a second rhino stands nearby.
Panel 7: Through the observation window, a curly-haired scientist in a lab coat presses both hands against the glass in distress; the bearded scientist stands behind her.
Curly-haired scientist: "They are lost to us."
Below the comic (caption): "This comic brought to you by buyers of SOONISH. Click for more information."
Votey:
Title text above panel: "FORTUNATELY..."
Close-up of a rhino's face engulfed in flames.
Rhino (small, faint speech bubble): "So... hot..."
Scientist (off-panel, behind): "How's it look?"
Balding scientist: "Not good. There's one male and three females left."
Panel 2: A view through a window of an observation room; rhinos visible outside.
Balding scientist: "That's not ideal, but it should be possible to breed more offspring."
Panel 3: The bearded, bespectacled scientist stands among colleagues.
Bearded scientist: "Unfortunately, the last male is one of those guys who gets really irritated about improper semicolon usage."
Panel 4: Outside, a rhino stands in a field; another rhino reads an open book on the ground in the background.
Off-panel (a colleague): "Preceding a conjunction? Really?!"
Panel 5: Close-up of the bearded scientist's face, looking grim.
Bearded scientist: "Usage."
Panel 6: The field. A rhino looks angrily at an open book lying on the grass; a second rhino stands nearby.
Panel 7: Through the observation window, a curly-haired scientist in a lab coat presses both hands against the glass in distress; the bearded scientist stands behind her.
Curly-haired scientist: "They are lost to us."
Below the comic (caption): "This comic brought to you by buyers of SOONISH. Click for more information."
Votey:
Title text above panel: "FORTUNATELY..."
Close-up of a rhino's face engulfed in flames.
Rhino (small, faint speech bubble): "So... hot..."
Alt text
A seven-panel SMBC comic. Scientists watch the last few rhinos of a dying species through an observation window. One scientist reports there is only one male and three females left, but says it should still be possible to breed more offspring. A bearded scientist explains, "Unfortunately, the last male is one of those guys who gets really irritated about improper semicolon usage." Outside, a rhino glares furiously at an open book lying in the grass while another rhino looks on; a scientist exclaims, "Preceding a conjunction? Really?!" The bearded scientist grimly clarifies, "Usage." In the final panel a curly-haired scientist presses her hands against the glass in despair and says, "They are lost to us." A caption notes the comic is sponsored by buyers of the book SOONISH. The votey aftercomic, titled "FORTUNATELY...", shows an extreme close-up of a rhino's face engulfed in flames, weakly saying, "So... hot..." — the species' fiery end framed darkly as a silver lining.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.