ceres
Original: ceres on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (with dark hair): They discovered water on Ceres.
Woman: Who cares?
Man: One day we could grow crops there!
Panel 2:
Woman: There's no point in growing crops on Ceres. It'd cost a fortune for every grain.
Man: I've got three words for you: Onerous. Naming. Rights.
Panel 3 (bottom, wide):
Caption: SOON...
Grocery-store shelf display of cereal boxes labeled:
AUTHENTIC CEREAL — Grown in the Cereal Region of The Solar System
(A second, partially visible box repeats: AUTHENTIC CEREAL — Grown in the Cereal Region of The Solar System)
Votey:
A cereal box price tag / sticker reading: $3,999,999,999,999.99
Man (with dark hair): They discovered water on Ceres.
Woman: Who cares?
Man: One day we could grow crops there!
Panel 2:
Woman: There's no point in growing crops on Ceres. It'd cost a fortune for every grain.
Man: I've got three words for you: Onerous. Naming. Rights.
Panel 3 (bottom, wide):
Caption: SOON...
Grocery-store shelf display of cereal boxes labeled:
AUTHENTIC CEREAL — Grown in the Cereal Region of The Solar System
(A second, partially visible box repeats: AUTHENTIC CEREAL — Grown in the Cereal Region of The Solar System)
Votey:
A cereal box price tag / sticker reading: $3,999,999,999,999.99
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel 1: a dark-haired man tells a woman, "They discovered water on Ceres." She replies, "Who cares?" He adds, "One day we could grow crops there!" Panel 2: the woman objects, "There's no point in growing crops on Ceres. It'd cost a fortune for every grain." The man counters, "I've got three words for you: Onerous. Naming. Rights." Panel 3, captioned "SOON...", shows a grocery shelf of cereal boxes labeled "AUTHENTIC CEREAL — Grown in the Cereal Region of The Solar System," punning on the dwarf planet Ceres as the namesake of cereal. The votey (aftercomic) shows a price sticker on a cereal box reading "$3,999,999,999,999.99," the absurdly high cost of the space-grown grain.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.