four-legs
Original: four-legs on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: Two fish are in the ocean, looking up at a four-legged creature (an early tetrapod/amphibian) standing on the shore at the water's edge.
First fish: LOOK AT FOUR-LEGS OVER THERE!
Second fish: GET OUT OF THE OCEAN, DORK!
Panel 2: The four-legged creature on land responds, looking back at the fish.
Four-legs: I'LL SHOW THEM! ONE DAY I'LL SHOW THEM!
Panel 3 (caption): 400 MILLION YEARS LATER...
A news anchor in a suit and tie sits at a desk on a TV news broadcast.
News anchor: ...AND OCEANOGRAPHERS REPORT OUR PLASTIC-BASED VENGEANCE AGAINST THE SEA-BORN CONTINUES WITH GREAT SUCCESS!
Lower-third chyron: PLASTIC GARBAGE / VORTEX GROWING
Votey:
A fish (rendered in simple cartoon form, swimming) speaks angrily.
Fish: WE WILL GROW POWERFUL AND WE WILL RETURN, APE!
A discarded plastic bottle/container floats in the water nearby.
First fish: LOOK AT FOUR-LEGS OVER THERE!
Second fish: GET OUT OF THE OCEAN, DORK!
Panel 2: The four-legged creature on land responds, looking back at the fish.
Four-legs: I'LL SHOW THEM! ONE DAY I'LL SHOW THEM!
Panel 3 (caption): 400 MILLION YEARS LATER...
A news anchor in a suit and tie sits at a desk on a TV news broadcast.
News anchor: ...AND OCEANOGRAPHERS REPORT OUR PLASTIC-BASED VENGEANCE AGAINST THE SEA-BORN CONTINUES WITH GREAT SUCCESS!
Lower-third chyron: PLASTIC GARBAGE / VORTEX GROWING
Votey:
A fish (rendered in simple cartoon form, swimming) speaks angrily.
Fish: WE WILL GROW POWERFUL AND WE WILL RETURN, APE!
A discarded plastic bottle/container floats in the water nearby.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic. Panel one: two fish in the ocean look up at a four-legged early land creature standing on the shore; one fish says 'LOOK AT FOUR-LEGS OVER THERE!' and the other says 'GET OUT OF THE OCEAN, DORK!' Panel two: the four-legged creature on land vows 'I'LL SHOW THEM! ONE DAY I'LL SHOW THEM!' Panel three, captioned '400 MILLION YEARS LATER...': a suited TV news anchor at a desk announces '...AND OCEANOGRAPHERS REPORT OUR PLASTIC-BASED VENGEANCE AGAINST THE SEA-BORN CONTINUES WITH GREAT SUCCESS!' with a chyron reading 'PLASTIC GARBAGE VORTEX GROWING.' The joke: the land animal's ancient grudge against sea life is fulfilled by humans polluting the ocean with plastic. Votey (aftercomic): a cartoon fish swims beside a floating plastic bottle and threatens 'WE WILL GROW POWERFUL AND WE WILL RETURN, APE!' — the ocean now plotting its own revenge.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.