impact
Original: impact on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman: Why the codpiece?
Bald man: I live every day like it might be my last.
Panel 2 (narration over an asteroid hitting Earth):
Man (narrating): Imagine this. Asteroid smashes into Earth - ash blankets the sky, trapping all surface life in a layer of soot and powdered glass.
Panel 3 (narration over a barren landscape):
Man (narrating): Eons hence, aliens come. See what happened. Begin the archaeological work.
Panel 4 (narration; two aliens excavating a plaster cast of a body with a prominent codpiece):
Man (narrating): They make castings of the gaps where corpses once lay. And BAM!
Alien: Wow! What a huge wiener!
Panel 5:
Woman (worried): Why do you care? You'll be dead.
Panel 6:
Bald man (clasping hands, blissful): I'll be watching from heaven!
Votey:
Angel (the bald man, now winged and haloed, peering down through clouds): So huge.
Woman: Why the codpiece?
Bald man: I live every day like it might be my last.
Panel 2 (narration over an asteroid hitting Earth):
Man (narrating): Imagine this. Asteroid smashes into Earth - ash blankets the sky, trapping all surface life in a layer of soot and powdered glass.
Panel 3 (narration over a barren landscape):
Man (narrating): Eons hence, aliens come. See what happened. Begin the archaeological work.
Panel 4 (narration; two aliens excavating a plaster cast of a body with a prominent codpiece):
Man (narrating): They make castings of the gaps where corpses once lay. And BAM!
Alien: Wow! What a huge wiener!
Panel 5:
Woman (worried): Why do you care? You'll be dead.
Panel 6:
Bald man (clasping hands, blissful): I'll be watching from heaven!
Votey:
Angel (the bald man, now winged and haloed, peering down through clouds): So huge.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a woman asks a bald man in a suit, "Why the codpiece?" He replies, "I live every day like it might be my last." Panels 2-4 illustrate his explanation as narration: an asteroid smashes into Earth, blanketing the sky in ash and trapping all surface life in soot and powdered glass; eons later aliens arrive and begin archaeological work on the barren landscape; they make plaster castings of the gaps where corpses once lay, and one alien marvels at a cast with a prominent codpiece, "Wow! What a huge wiener!" Panel 5: the woman, looking worried, asks, "Why do you care? You'll be dead." Panel 6: the man clasps his hands blissfully and says, "I'll be watching from heaven!" Votey: the man, now a winged, haloed angel, peers down through the clouds and says, "So huge."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.