future
Original: future on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A flyer or notice is taped to a wall. It reads in large block letters: "PROBLEMS WITH RECURSION?" Below the heading is a row of pull-off tabs with the instruction above them: "Please take one."
Panel 2: A man in a suit stands in front of the flyer, seen from behind/side, reaching up to tear off one of the pull-off tabs.
Panel 3: The man looks down at the small tab he has pulled off. Close on his hand holding the slip of paper.
Panel 4: The man stares at the tab in shock, exclaiming.
Man: "WHAT THE—"
The tab in his hand is itself a tiny copy of the original flyer, reading: "PROBLEMS WITH RECURSION?" with its own row of "Please take one" tabs.
Votey:
A loosely hand-drawn, wide-eyed startled face with a speech/thought bubble.
Text: "HOW DID HE KNOW?"
Panel 2: A man in a suit stands in front of the flyer, seen from behind/side, reaching up to tear off one of the pull-off tabs.
Panel 3: The man looks down at the small tab he has pulled off. Close on his hand holding the slip of paper.
Panel 4: The man stares at the tab in shock, exclaiming.
Man: "WHAT THE—"
The tab in his hand is itself a tiny copy of the original flyer, reading: "PROBLEMS WITH RECURSION?" with its own row of "Please take one" tabs.
Votey:
A loosely hand-drawn, wide-eyed startled face with a speech/thought bubble.
Text: "HOW DID HE KNOW?"
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: a flyer taped to a wall reads "PROBLEMS WITH RECURSION?" with a row of tear-off tabs labeled "Please take one." Panel 2: a man in a suit reaches up and tears off one of the tabs. Panel 3: he looks at the small slip of paper in his hand. Panel 4: he reacts in shock—"WHAT THE—"—because the tab he pulled is itself a miniature copy of the same flyer, reading "PROBLEMS WITH RECURSION?" with its own tear-off tabs. The joke: a flyer about recursion problems is, itself, recursive. Votey (bonus panel): a loosely sketched, wide-eyed startled face with a bubble reading "HOW DID HE KNOW?"—as if the flyer eerily predicted the reader's reaction.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.