ew-2
Original: ew-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A single-celled organism (one of three amoeba/cell-like blobs with spiky outer membranes) shouts at two others that are touching/overlapping.
Cell: "OH MY GOD. WHAT IS HAPPENING?! YOU TOLD ME YOU WERE JUST STUDYING TOGETHER!"
Caption (below panel): "There must've been a lot of intergenerational tension for the first sexual organism."
Votey:
A single rounded blob/cell sits silently while an off-panel voice (a speech bubble pointing at it) berates it.
Voice (speech bubble): "YOU'RE CLONES OF EACH OTHER, FOR GOD'S SAKE!"
A single-celled organism (one of three amoeba/cell-like blobs with spiky outer membranes) shouts at two others that are touching/overlapping.
Cell: "OH MY GOD. WHAT IS HAPPENING?! YOU TOLD ME YOU WERE JUST STUDYING TOGETHER!"
Caption (below panel): "There must've been a lot of intergenerational tension for the first sexual organism."
Votey:
A single rounded blob/cell sits silently while an off-panel voice (a speech bubble pointing at it) berates it.
Voice (speech bubble): "YOU'RE CLONES OF EACH OTHER, FOR GOD'S SAKE!"
Alt text
A cartoon shows three single-celled organisms drawn as round blobs with spiky outer membranes. Two of them are touching/overlapping, and a third recoils in shock, shouting: "OH MY GOD. WHAT IS HAPPENING?! YOU TOLD ME YOU WERE JUST STUDYING TOGETHER!" A caption below reads: "There must've been a lot of intergenerational tension for the first sexual organism." The joke imagines the dawn of sexual reproduction as a scandalized parent catching their cell-offspring in the act. Votey (aftercomic): a lone blob sits silently while a speech bubble from off-panel scolds it: "YOU'RE CLONES OF EACH OTHER, FOR GOD'S SAKE!" — pointing out that for asexual single-celled life, any pairing is incest because everyone is genetically identical.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.