acnes
Original: acnes on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (one yellow rod-shaped bacterium):
Bacterium: Is it GREAT to be Cutibacterium acnes or WHAT?
Panel 2 (a second bacterium):
Bacterium: SO GREAT. We cause 99% of teenage mortification AND we're getting antibiotic resistance!
Panel 3 (two bacteria):
First bacterium: How many of us have resistance now?
Second bacterium: Hard to say. Hey, how about we analyze it... with a scatter plot?
Panel 4 (a teenage girl with reddish-brown hair and acne on her face):
Girl: HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
Votey:
Caption / off-panel voice (from a speech bubble pointing down between two bare feet): THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT, BRO.
Bacterium: Is it GREAT to be Cutibacterium acnes or WHAT?
Panel 2 (a second bacterium):
Bacterium: SO GREAT. We cause 99% of teenage mortification AND we're getting antibiotic resistance!
Panel 3 (two bacteria):
First bacterium: How many of us have resistance now?
Second bacterium: Hard to say. Hey, how about we analyze it... with a scatter plot?
Panel 4 (a teenage girl with reddish-brown hair and acne on her face):
Girl: HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
Votey:
Caption / off-panel voice (from a speech bubble pointing down between two bare feet): THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT, BRO.
Alt text
A four-panel comic personifying acne bacteria. In the first three panels, googly yellow rod-shaped bacteria float on a blue speckled background and chat cheerfully: one says it's great to be Cutibacterium acnes, another brags that they cause 99% of teenage mortification and are gaining antibiotic resistance, and they joke about analyzing how many of them are resistant 'with a scatter plot.' The final panel shows a teenage girl with reddish-brown hair and an acne-covered face laughing nervously, 'HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!', as if she can hear them. Votey: A hand-drawn black-and-white panel shows a person's two bare feet from above, with a speech bubble pointing down between them reading 'THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT, BRO.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.