gmo
Original: gmo on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A small crowd of people stands together. One person holds up a fist.
Protester: SAY NO TO GMO!
Panel 2: A bespectacled scientist in a suit gestures toward a creature on a table.
Scientist: LISTEN! BEFORE YOU DISMISS GENETICALLY MODIFIED ANIMALS, CONSIDER OUR LATEST CREATION!
Panel 3: The scientist presents the creature.
Scientist: BY SPLICING IN SPIDER DNA, WE'VE MANAGED TO CREATE AN EIGHT-LEGGED TURKEY!
Panel 4: A woman in the crowd reacts.
Woman: MY GOD. EIGHT DRUMSTICKS PER TURKEY!
Panel 5: Crowd members react with dawning approval.
Crowd member: NO KIDS FIGHTING AT THANKSGIVING.
Another crowd member: PERHAPS... PERHAPS WE WERE WRONG.
Panel 6: Close-up of the scientist looking alarmed, mouth open.
Scientist: OH, NO, NO, NO, NO. THE SPIDURKEY ISN'T FOOD.
Panel 7: A crowd member turns, confused.
Crowd member: WHAT?
Panel 8: A large panel. The spidurkey — a turkey body with a spider's many-eyed head and spider legs — rears up and shrieks.
Spidurkey: KSSSSSSAAAAAA!
Panel 9: The crowd screams in terror, mouths wide open.
Panel 10: The spidurkey, silhouetted in its web with multiple glowing eyes, looms over the scene.
Panel 11: The scientist throws his head back, eyes shut, laughing maniacally.
Scientist: AUAHAHA HAHAHAHAH HAHAHA!
Votey:
Header caption: "Dealin' with the issues."
A therapy session. On the left, a woman sits with her arms crossed looking unhappy, with a young child and a smaller figure (the family) drawn beside/below her. On the right, a therapist sits in a chair holding a notepad and pen, listening. The implication is the family from the comic is now working through the trauma of the spidurkey reveal in therapy.
Protester: SAY NO TO GMO!
Panel 2: A bespectacled scientist in a suit gestures toward a creature on a table.
Scientist: LISTEN! BEFORE YOU DISMISS GENETICALLY MODIFIED ANIMALS, CONSIDER OUR LATEST CREATION!
Panel 3: The scientist presents the creature.
Scientist: BY SPLICING IN SPIDER DNA, WE'VE MANAGED TO CREATE AN EIGHT-LEGGED TURKEY!
Panel 4: A woman in the crowd reacts.
Woman: MY GOD. EIGHT DRUMSTICKS PER TURKEY!
Panel 5: Crowd members react with dawning approval.
Crowd member: NO KIDS FIGHTING AT THANKSGIVING.
Another crowd member: PERHAPS... PERHAPS WE WERE WRONG.
Panel 6: Close-up of the scientist looking alarmed, mouth open.
Scientist: OH, NO, NO, NO, NO. THE SPIDURKEY ISN'T FOOD.
Panel 7: A crowd member turns, confused.
Crowd member: WHAT?
Panel 8: A large panel. The spidurkey — a turkey body with a spider's many-eyed head and spider legs — rears up and shrieks.
Spidurkey: KSSSSSSAAAAAA!
Panel 9: The crowd screams in terror, mouths wide open.
Panel 10: The spidurkey, silhouetted in its web with multiple glowing eyes, looms over the scene.
Panel 11: The scientist throws his head back, eyes shut, laughing maniacally.
Scientist: AUAHAHA HAHAHAHAH HAHAHA!
Votey:
Header caption: "Dealin' with the issues."
A therapy session. On the left, a woman sits with her arms crossed looking unhappy, with a young child and a smaller figure (the family) drawn beside/below her. On the right, a therapist sits in a chair holding a notepad and pen, listening. The implication is the family from the comic is now working through the trauma of the spidurkey reveal in therapy.
Alt text
An eleven-panel SMBC comic. A crowd protests, one person yelling "Say no to GMO!" A bespectacled scientist in a suit tells them to reconsider genetically modified animals and presents his latest creation: by splicing in spider DNA he has made an eight-legged turkey. The crowd warms to the idea — "Eight drumsticks per turkey!" and "No kids fighting at Thanksgiving" — admitting "Perhaps we were wrong." But the scientist, suddenly alarmed, says "Oh, no, no, no, no. The Spidurkey isn't food." A crowd member asks "What?" In a big panel the creature — a turkey body topped with a many-eyed spider head and spider legs — rears up shrieking "KSSSSSSAAAAAA!" The crowd screams in terror as the spidurkey looms in its web with glowing eyes. In the final panel the scientist throws his head back laughing maniacally. Votey aftercomic, captioned "Dealin' with the issues": a therapy session where an unhappy, arms-crossed woman and her kids sit across from a therapist holding a notepad, processing the ordeal.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.