disc-world
Original: disc-world on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man with flame-like orange hair and a beard stands in a kitchen holding a mug, looking thoughtful.
Voice from a dish on the plate (small speech bubble): "DEAR LORD, WHY ARE WE HERE?"
Panel 2: Wide shot of the man at the kitchen sink, washing dishes.
Panel 3: Close-up of the man looking down, puzzled.
Man: "EH?"
Voice from the plate: "WHY DID LIFE FORM ON THE PLATE? WHY DID IT BECOME CONSCIOUS?"
Panel 4: View of a white plate in the sink.
Man (replying): "OUR SCIENTIST CALCULATED THE ODDS AND THEY'RE INFINITESIMAL. YET, HERE WE ARE."
Panel 5: The man holds and dries a plate, looking slightly pained.
Voice from the plate: "LORD... IS THERE A WORLD BEYOND THE PLATE? A WORLD OF HAPPINESS? A WORLD FREE FROM TRIBULATION?"
Panel 6: The man scrubs a sponge over a dish under running water at the sink, looking down with a resigned, melancholy expression. (He does not answer.)
Votey:
The view is from inside the sink, looking up at the man washing dishes above the drain.
Voice from the plate (large speech bubble): "YOU'RE ONLY KILLING THE EVIL ONES, RIGHT?"
Voice from a dish on the plate (small speech bubble): "DEAR LORD, WHY ARE WE HERE?"
Panel 2: Wide shot of the man at the kitchen sink, washing dishes.
Panel 3: Close-up of the man looking down, puzzled.
Man: "EH?"
Voice from the plate: "WHY DID LIFE FORM ON THE PLATE? WHY DID IT BECOME CONSCIOUS?"
Panel 4: View of a white plate in the sink.
Man (replying): "OUR SCIENTIST CALCULATED THE ODDS AND THEY'RE INFINITESIMAL. YET, HERE WE ARE."
Panel 5: The man holds and dries a plate, looking slightly pained.
Voice from the plate: "LORD... IS THERE A WORLD BEYOND THE PLATE? A WORLD OF HAPPINESS? A WORLD FREE FROM TRIBULATION?"
Panel 6: The man scrubs a sponge over a dish under running water at the sink, looking down with a resigned, melancholy expression. (He does not answer.)
Votey:
The view is from inside the sink, looking up at the man washing dishes above the drain.
Voice from the plate (large speech bubble): "YOU'RE ONLY KILLING THE EVIL ONES, RIGHT?"
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A bearded man with flame-like orange hair stands in his kitchen. A tiny voice rising from the dishes in his sink speaks to him as if he were God: it asks, 'Dear Lord, why are we here? Why did life form on the plate? Why did it become conscious?' The man, washing and drying dishes, replies as a weary deity: 'Our scientist calculated the odds and they're infinitesimal. Yet, here we are.' The plate-life pleads, 'Lord... is there a world beyond the plate? A world of happiness? A world free from tribulation?' In the final panel the man silently scrubs a dish under running water, looking down with a resigned, melancholy face, not answering, because washing the dishes means destroying the microscopic civilization living on them. Votey aftercomic: the view looks up from inside the sink at the man washing dishes, and the voice from the plate adds nervously, 'You're only killing the evil ones, right?'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.