science-fiction
Original: science-fiction on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Caption (pink box): FACT: LOTS OF NERDS *THINK* THEY LIKE SCIENCE FICTION BECAUSE OF THE TECHNOLOGY AND PREDICTIONS.
A woman reading a book, excited: "OH MAN, THESE SPACE-GUNS ARE SO TECHNICALLY ACCURATE!"
Panel 2:
Caption (pink box): FACT: THEY ACTUALLY READ FOR THE GOOD CHARACTER WRITING AND PLOT DESIGN.
A balding man reading a book (titled "how to"), tearful: "HIS DADDY STILL LOVED HIM!"
Conclusion bar:
CONCLUSION: YOU CAN TRICK THEM INTO LOVING JANE AUSTEN JUST BY PUTTING A STICKER IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH:
Bottom panel (large text of the Pride and Prejudice opening line, with a hand-drawn sticker reading "ON MARS" slapped over the word "universally"):
"It is a truth universally [ON MARS] acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Votey:
ALSO:
HAPPY FAMILIES ARE ALL THE SAME IN SPACE...
IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES IN THE NARROW BAND OF ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH VENUS HAS EARTH-LIKE PRESSURE...
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYNCELADUS...
Caption (pink box): FACT: LOTS OF NERDS *THINK* THEY LIKE SCIENCE FICTION BECAUSE OF THE TECHNOLOGY AND PREDICTIONS.
A woman reading a book, excited: "OH MAN, THESE SPACE-GUNS ARE SO TECHNICALLY ACCURATE!"
Panel 2:
Caption (pink box): FACT: THEY ACTUALLY READ FOR THE GOOD CHARACTER WRITING AND PLOT DESIGN.
A balding man reading a book (titled "how to"), tearful: "HIS DADDY STILL LOVED HIM!"
Conclusion bar:
CONCLUSION: YOU CAN TRICK THEM INTO LOVING JANE AUSTEN JUST BY PUTTING A STICKER IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH:
Bottom panel (large text of the Pride and Prejudice opening line, with a hand-drawn sticker reading "ON MARS" slapped over the word "universally"):
"It is a truth universally [ON MARS] acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Votey:
ALSO:
HAPPY FAMILIES ARE ALL THE SAME IN SPACE...
IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES IN THE NARROW BAND OF ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH VENUS HAS EARTH-LIKE PRESSURE...
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYNCELADUS...
Alt text
A four-part SMBC comic mocking sci-fi readers. Panel 1: a pink caption reads "FACT: LOTS OF NERDS *THINK* THEY LIKE SCIENCE FICTION BECAUSE OF THE TECHNOLOGY AND PREDICTIONS," while a woman reading a book gushes, "OH MAN, THESE SPACE-GUNS ARE SO TECHNICALLY ACCURATE!" Panel 2: a pink caption reads "FACT: THEY ACTUALLY READ FOR THE GOOD CHARACTER WRITING AND PLOT DESIGN," while a balding man tears up over his book, saying "HIS DADDY STILL LOVED HIM!" A conclusion bar states: "YOU CAN TRICK THEM INTO LOVING JANE AUSTEN JUST BY PUTTING A STICKER IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH." The bottom panel shows the famous Pride and Prejudice opening line in large book text, but a crude hand-drawn sticker reading "ON MARS" has been stuck over a word: "It is a truth universally [ON MARS] acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." The votey (aftercomic) continues the joke with more classic-novel openings sci-fi-ified: "ALSO: Happy families are all the same in space... It was the best of times in the narrow band of atmosphere in which Venus has Earth-like pressure... A tree grows in Brooklynceladus..."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.