ark-2
Original: ark-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: Noah's Ark rests atop a mountain peak beneath a large rainbow arcing across the sky.
Narration/God (caption): BEHOLD, GOD'S SIGN. HE WILL NEVER DO THIS AGAIN.
Panel 2: A close-up on the side of the rainbow, where a figure peers at it.
Voice: WAIT, WHAT'S THAT?
Panel 3: Continued close-up of the rainbow.
Voice: IS IT... FINE PRINT?
Panel 4: The rainbow with a block of tiny legal text printed along its band.
Voice: OH HELL-
Fine print (in the rainbow): The cessation of mass homicide shall be restricted only to the particular category of flood-based homicide, and shall not include fire, famine, war, plague, or other source-borne methods.
Votey:
Text only on a plain background: Acts of God, however, are just fine.
Narration/God (caption): BEHOLD, GOD'S SIGN. HE WILL NEVER DO THIS AGAIN.
Panel 2: A close-up on the side of the rainbow, where a figure peers at it.
Voice: WAIT, WHAT'S THAT?
Panel 3: Continued close-up of the rainbow.
Voice: IS IT... FINE PRINT?
Panel 4: The rainbow with a block of tiny legal text printed along its band.
Voice: OH HELL-
Fine print (in the rainbow): The cessation of mass homicide shall be restricted only to the particular category of flood-based homicide, and shall not include fire, famine, war, plague, or other source-borne methods.
Votey:
Text only on a plain background: Acts of God, however, are just fine.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: Noah's Ark sits on a mountaintop under a big rainbow; a caption reads 'BEHOLD, GOD'S SIGN. HE WILL NEVER DO THIS AGAIN.' Panel 2: A close-up of someone looking at the rainbow, asking 'WAIT, WHAT'S THAT?' Panel 3: Still examining it: 'IS IT... FINE PRINT?' Panel 4: The rainbow is revealed to carry tiny legal fine print reading that God's promise only bars flood-based mass homicide, 'and shall not include fire, famine, war, plague, or other source-borne methods'; the viewer reacts 'OH HELL-'. Votey panel: plain text reading 'Acts of God, however, are just fine.' The joke: God's rainbow promise against another flood comes with lawyerly fine print exempting every other form of divine mass killing.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.