eugenics
Original: eugenics on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (red shirt): Look, eugenics was bad, but what's wrong with the idea?
Panel 2:
Man (red shirt): We breed cattle to be better and better, and it works! Compare cattle from now to 200 years ago. They're far superior now!
Panel 3:
Second man (glasses, bald): Gosh, when you say it that way, it makes perfect sense. Let the breeding begin!
Panel 4:
Caption banner: MANY GENERATIONS HENCE...
An armored knight holds up a baby toward a woman.
Knight: Thanks to the work of our ancestors, your new baby has exceptionally well-marbled flanks.
Votey:
Woman (off-panel, in speech bubble): The legs of the master race...
(A close-up of a person's leg/thigh is shown, as if being appraised like a cut of meat.)
Man (red shirt): Look, eugenics was bad, but what's wrong with the idea?
Panel 2:
Man (red shirt): We breed cattle to be better and better, and it works! Compare cattle from now to 200 years ago. They're far superior now!
Panel 3:
Second man (glasses, bald): Gosh, when you say it that way, it makes perfect sense. Let the breeding begin!
Panel 4:
Caption banner: MANY GENERATIONS HENCE...
An armored knight holds up a baby toward a woman.
Knight: Thanks to the work of our ancestors, your new baby has exceptionally well-marbled flanks.
Votey:
Woman (off-panel, in speech bubble): The legs of the master race...
(A close-up of a person's leg/thigh is shown, as if being appraised like a cut of meat.)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panels 1-2: a man in a red shirt argues to a bald bespectacled friend that although eugenics was bad, the idea has merit, because we've bred cattle to be far superior over the past 200 years. Panel 3: the friend, convinced, exclaims 'Gosh, when you say it that way, it makes perfect sense. Let the breeding begin!' Panel 4, captioned 'MANY GENERATIONS HENCE...', shows an armored knight presenting a baby to a woman and saying the baby 'has exceptionally well-marbled flanks' thanks to their ancestors' breeding work, treating the human like prize livestock. Votey: a woman appraises a close-up of a bare human leg, saying 'The legs of the master race...' as though inspecting a cut of meat.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.