extinguish
Original: extinguish on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
First person: Do you worry we'll extinguish all life on Earth?
Second person: Nah.
Panel 2:
Second person: Look. Were just one more selection constraint. Given enough time, the animals will learn to adapt.
Panel 3:
First person: That WOULD explain the weird stepping patterns I've been seeing on zebras lately.
Second person: Bingo.
(A zebra is shown whose stripes spell out words / letters in their pattern.)
Votey:
Second person: Also, have you noticed how all animals can now cry and say 'mama'?
(Close-up of the first person's face, looking concerned/uneasy.)
First person: Do you worry we'll extinguish all life on Earth?
Second person: Nah.
Panel 2:
Second person: Look. Were just one more selection constraint. Given enough time, the animals will learn to adapt.
Panel 3:
First person: That WOULD explain the weird stepping patterns I've been seeing on zebras lately.
Second person: Bingo.
(A zebra is shown whose stripes spell out words / letters in their pattern.)
Votey:
Second person: Also, have you noticed how all animals can now cry and say 'mama'?
(Close-up of the first person's face, looking concerned/uneasy.)
Alt text
A two-person conversation in three panels. In the first panel, one person asks if they should worry about humans extinguishing all life on Earth; the other replies 'Nah.' In the second, the reassuring person explains that humans are just one more selection constraint, and given enough time the animals will learn to adapt. In the third panel the first person says this would explain the weird stepping patterns they've been seeing on zebras lately, and the other says 'Bingo' — beside them stands a zebra whose stripe pattern appears to have rearranged into letters/words, implying animals are evolving to communicate with humans. In the votey aftercomic, the second person adds, 'Also, have you noticed how all animals can now cry and say "mama"?' shown over a close-up of the first person's uneasy face.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.