world-war-3
Original: world-war-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with red/orange hair, seen from behind in the foreground, faces an older bearded man in a suit sitting in a chair across a desk.
Red-haired man: "YOU'RE STARTING WORLD WAR 3?! BUT WHY?!"
Older bearded man (in suit with orange tie): "HONESTLY, WE'RE JUST OUT OF IDEAS."
Caption (below panel): The public's desire for ever more low-quality sequels reaches its inevitable and tragic denouement.
Votey:
A large face (hand-drawn, sketchy style) with a speech bubble.
Text in bubble: "This apocalypse stars Jeff Goldblum"
A man with red/orange hair, seen from behind in the foreground, faces an older bearded man in a suit sitting in a chair across a desk.
Red-haired man: "YOU'RE STARTING WORLD WAR 3?! BUT WHY?!"
Older bearded man (in suit with orange tie): "HONESTLY, WE'RE JUST OUT OF IDEAS."
Caption (below panel): The public's desire for ever more low-quality sequels reaches its inevitable and tragic denouement.
Votey:
A large face (hand-drawn, sketchy style) with a speech bubble.
Text in bubble: "This apocalypse stars Jeff Goldblum"
Alt text
A two-character scene drawn in SMBC's usual style. In the foreground, seen from behind, a man with red-orange hair speaks to an older bearded man in a dark suit with an orange tie who sits calmly in a chair behind a desk. The red-haired man exclaims, "You're starting World War 3?! But why?!" The bearded man replies flatly, "Honestly, we're just out of ideas." A caption beneath reads: "The public's desire for ever more low-quality sequels reaches its inevitable and tragic denouement." The joke frames an actual world war as the next cynical, idea-bankrupt sequel. The votey (bonus panel) shows a loose hand-drawn sketch of a large face with a speech bubble saying, "This apocalypse stars Jeff Goldblum," extending the movie-sequel gag.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.