phosphine
Original: phosphine on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Computer screen text: "NOW, PHOSPHINE? A POSSIBLE SIGNATURE FOR LIFE ON VENUS!"
A person with glasses reads it at the computer.
Panel 2:
A second person (with long dark hair) bursts out laughing.
Sound effect: "=SNRK!="
Panel 3:
The first person (glasses): "WHAT'S FUNNY?"
Panel 4:
The first person (glasses): "WHAT ARE YOU TITLING THE PRESS RELEASE?"
Panel 5:
The long-haired person holds up a document, grinning.
Document headline: "Scientists Discover Venereal Life!"
Subtext on the document (smaller): "may be able to launch... [obscured handwriting]"
Votey:
(HOPEFULLY IT CLEARS UP SOON!)
Computer screen text: "NOW, PHOSPHINE? A POSSIBLE SIGNATURE FOR LIFE ON VENUS!"
A person with glasses reads it at the computer.
Panel 2:
A second person (with long dark hair) bursts out laughing.
Sound effect: "=SNRK!="
Panel 3:
The first person (glasses): "WHAT'S FUNNY?"
Panel 4:
The first person (glasses): "WHAT ARE YOU TITLING THE PRESS RELEASE?"
Panel 5:
The long-haired person holds up a document, grinning.
Document headline: "Scientists Discover Venereal Life!"
Subtext on the document (smaller): "may be able to launch... [obscured handwriting]"
Votey:
(HOPEFULLY IT CLEARS UP SOON!)
Alt text
A five-panel comic. Panel 1: a bespectacled person reads a computer screen displaying "NOW, PHOSPHINE? A POSSIBLE SIGNATURE FOR LIFE ON VENUS!" (a nod to the real 2020 detection of phosphine in Venus's atmosphere). Panel 2: a second person with long dark hair bursts out laughing with a "SNRK!" sound effect. Panel 3: the first person asks, "WHAT'S FUNNY?" Panel 4: they add, "WHAT ARE YOU TITLING THE PRESS RELEASE?" Panel 5: the laughing person triumphantly holds up a printed press release headlined "Scientists Discover Venereal Life!" The joke is the pun swapping "Venusian" for "venereal" (as in venereal disease). The votey (aftercomic) is plain text reading "(HOPEFULLY IT CLEARS UP SOON!)" continuing the venereal-disease pun.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.