monkey
Original: monkey on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A small green alien with large black eyes sits inside what appears to be a vehicle or spacecraft, gesturing toward a red-haired human seen from behind.
Green alien: Hm... let me try to explain. Imagine there's a confused, angry monkey who is rapidly amassing a vast assortment of powerful explosives. He looks out the window every day and sees nobody stopping by to chat with him. In fact, he sees nobody in the entire neighborhood.
Green alien: Should the monkey find this strange?
Caption (below panel): Zordrak resolves the Fermi "Paradox."
Votey:
The red-haired human figure speaks to someone off-panel.
Human: Go ahead and eat me.
Off-panel voice: What? Ew.
A small green alien with large black eyes sits inside what appears to be a vehicle or spacecraft, gesturing toward a red-haired human seen from behind.
Green alien: Hm... let me try to explain. Imagine there's a confused, angry monkey who is rapidly amassing a vast assortment of powerful explosives. He looks out the window every day and sees nobody stopping by to chat with him. In fact, he sees nobody in the entire neighborhood.
Green alien: Should the monkey find this strange?
Caption (below panel): Zordrak resolves the Fermi "Paradox."
Votey:
The red-haired human figure speaks to someone off-panel.
Human: Go ahead and eat me.
Off-panel voice: What? Ew.
Alt text
A small green alien with large black eyes sits inside a vehicle, gesturing toward a red-haired human shown from behind. The alien says: "Hm... let me try to explain. Imagine there's a confused, angry monkey who is rapidly amassing a vast assortment of powerful explosives. He looks out the window every day and sees nobody stopping by to chat with him. In fact, he sees nobody in the entire neighborhood." In a second speech bubble it asks, "Should the monkey find this strange?" A caption below reads: "Zordrak resolves the Fermi 'Paradox.'" The joke: aliens avoid humanity (the explosive-hoarding monkey) the way you'd avoid an unstable neighbor, explaining why we detect no one. Votey (a hand-drawn aftercomic): the red-haired human says "Go ahead and eat me," and an off-panel voice replies, "What? Ew."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.