oops
Original: oops on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A superhero in a red costume with a winged helmet (a Flash-like speedster) stands in a dim room, hands raised, looking at a skeleton tied to a wooden chair with rope. The skeleton wears a suit and tie.
Speedster: OH MY GOD! I JUST RAN OUT TO GET A SANDWICH. I WAS GOING TO SUMMON THE POLICE TO ARREST YOU WHEN I GOT BACK, AND THEN... OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE?
Caption (below panel): Once again, The Flash fails to account for relativity.
Votey:
Header: LATER...
The speedster runs at extreme speed across a landscape, mouth open in alarm.
Speedster: OH NO! THE SUN IS EXPANDING AND ENGULFING EARTH!
A superhero in a red costume with a winged helmet (a Flash-like speedster) stands in a dim room, hands raised, looking at a skeleton tied to a wooden chair with rope. The skeleton wears a suit and tie.
Speedster: OH MY GOD! I JUST RAN OUT TO GET A SANDWICH. I WAS GOING TO SUMMON THE POLICE TO ARREST YOU WHEN I GOT BACK, AND THEN... OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE?
Caption (below panel): Once again, The Flash fails to account for relativity.
Votey:
Header: LATER...
The speedster runs at extreme speed across a landscape, mouth open in alarm.
Speedster: OH NO! THE SUN IS EXPANDING AND ENGULFING EARTH!
Alt text
A Flash-like superhero in a red costume with a winged helmet stands with hands raised in a dim room, facing a skeleton in a suit and tie tied to a wooden chair with rope. The hero says: 'OH MY GOD! I just ran out to get a sandwich. I was going to summon the police to arrest you when I got back, and then... oh god what have I done?' The skeleton implies that, due to the hero's near-light-speed travel, vast amounts of time passed for the captive while the hero was briefly away, so the prisoner aged and died. A caption reads: 'Once again, The Flash fails to account for relativity.' Votey aftercomic, headed 'LATER...': the hero runs across a landscape at extreme speed, alarmed, shouting 'OH NO! The sun is expanding and engulfing Earth!' — implying so much external time has passed that the sun is reaching the end of its life.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.