mimic
Original: mimic on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic (single panel):
Narrator / unseen tour-guide speaker (speech bubble): "It's an entirely new form of biomimicry. This is in fact a plant that APPEARS to be a computer programmer. By appearing humanoid and emitting occasional muttering sounds, it tricks us into providing light from six monitors at once."
Scene: A green-haired person in a black shirt sits at a desk in front of a large monitor, staring blankly ahead. Behind them, a small group of onlookers (a woman in a lab coat, and several other people) observe over a partition as if viewing a museum or zoo specimen.
Votey:
Speaker (speech bubble): "A specialized tissue structure allows it to have strong opinions on Python."
Scene: A small lizard- or creature-like figure sits beneath the large speech bubble, gesturing as it talks.
Narrator / unseen tour-guide speaker (speech bubble): "It's an entirely new form of biomimicry. This is in fact a plant that APPEARS to be a computer programmer. By appearing humanoid and emitting occasional muttering sounds, it tricks us into providing light from six monitors at once."
Scene: A green-haired person in a black shirt sits at a desk in front of a large monitor, staring blankly ahead. Behind them, a small group of onlookers (a woman in a lab coat, and several other people) observe over a partition as if viewing a museum or zoo specimen.
Votey:
Speaker (speech bubble): "A specialized tissue structure allows it to have strong opinions on Python."
Scene: A small lizard- or creature-like figure sits beneath the large speech bubble, gesturing as it talks.
Alt text
A single-panel comic. A green-haired person in a black shirt sits slumped at a desk in front of a large computer monitor, staring blankly with a vacant expression. Behind a partition, a small group of people (including a woman in a lab coat) watch them like museum visitors observing a specimen. A speech bubble from an unseen guide reads: "It's an entirely new form of biomimicry. This is in fact a plant that APPEARS to be a computer programmer. By appearing humanoid and emitting occasional muttering sounds, it tricks us into providing light from six monitors at once." The joke: the burnt-out-looking programmer is reframed as a plant that mimics a human just to get free light. Votey: a small creature gestures beneath a speech bubble that adds, "A specialized tissue structure allows it to have strong opinions on Python" — the kicker that this plant-programmer's defining trait is fierce opinions about the Python language.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.