void
Original: void on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Man praying (eyes closed): Dear God, the Trinity confuses me.
Panel 2
God (offscreen voice): The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost?
Man: The what?
Panel 3
God: Oh no. Have you not heard about the Holy Ghost?
Man: So, the Holy Ghost is...
Panel 4
Man: What?
Panel 5
God: I thought you only ever knew my legitimate son. That makes things way too above-board.
Panel 6
God: Ugh. Look, the world was about as good as it ever got, and you guys were really nothing, okay?
Panel 7
God: One thing led to another, and long story short, by the time I saw what I had made and that it was good, and there was that one evening morning, suddenly the void shows up with a baby.
Panel 8
Man: A ghost?
Panel 9
God: Bingo. I spent the whole eternity dry-heaving after that.
Panel 10
Man: This all makes sense, but somehow I'm not happy.
Panel 11
God: Before you judge me, kid, you don't even know what zeus got up to.
Votey:
God (large speech bubble, addressing a dark blobby shape, with a small egg-like oval beside it): No, I haven't been... a*void*ing you! I... oh man, is that a baby?
Man praying (eyes closed): Dear God, the Trinity confuses me.
Panel 2
God (offscreen voice): The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost?
Man: The what?
Panel 3
God: Oh no. Have you not heard about the Holy Ghost?
Man: So, the Holy Ghost is...
Panel 4
Man: What?
Panel 5
God: I thought you only ever knew my legitimate son. That makes things way too above-board.
Panel 6
God: Ugh. Look, the world was about as good as it ever got, and you guys were really nothing, okay?
Panel 7
God: One thing led to another, and long story short, by the time I saw what I had made and that it was good, and there was that one evening morning, suddenly the void shows up with a baby.
Panel 8
Man: A ghost?
Panel 9
God: Bingo. I spent the whole eternity dry-heaving after that.
Panel 10
Man: This all makes sense, but somehow I'm not happy.
Panel 11
God: Before you judge me, kid, you don't even know what zeus got up to.
Votey:
God (large speech bubble, addressing a dark blobby shape, with a small egg-like oval beside it): No, I haven't been... a*void*ing you! I... oh man, is that a baby?
Alt text
An eleven-panel SMBC comic. A man kneels praying and tells God, 'Dear God, the Trinity confuses me.' God's disembodied voice replies, 'The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost?' The man is baffled ('The what?'), and God reacts with embarrassment ('Oh no. Have you not heard about the Holy Ghost?'). God then sheepishly explains the Holy Ghost like an awkward family secret: he says only knowing his legitimate son made things 'way too above-board,' then rambles through a Genesis-flavored story of how 'one thing led to another' until 'suddenly the void shows up with a baby.' The man asks, 'A ghost?' God answers 'Bingo' and admits he spent 'the whole eternity dry-heaving after that.' The man says it all makes sense but he's somehow not happy, and God deflects: 'Before you judge me, kid, you don't even know what Zeus got up to.' The joke frames the Trinity and Holy Ghost as God's embarrassing accidental love-child scandal. Votey: a black silhouetted blobby figure (the void) holds a small egg-shaped oval (the baby) while God's voice booms from a large speech bubble, 'No, I haven't been... a*VOID*ing you! I... oh man, is that a baby?' — a pun on 'avoiding' / 'a void.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.