asteroid-plan

A woman with gray curly hair and round glasses stands behind a podium, addressing an audience. Her speech bubble reads: "After consultation with the UN, NASA, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in view of the most recent similar calamity, we have resolved that everyone should evolve into birds." A caption beneath the panel reads: "It was a mistake to put paleontologists in charge of the asteroid defense program" — the joke being that paleontologists, who study how dinosaurs died from an asteroid and how birds survived, are now proposing the same survival strategy for humans. In the votey (bonus panel), another speech bubble announces: "Those who wish to remain mammals may become smaller and more furry," drawn above a small, frightened-looking furry mouse-like creature — referencing the small mammals that survived the dinosaur extinction.