nature-2
Original: nature-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: Two people stand beneath a large old oak tree.
First person: It's amazing just how many life forms live on, in, and around just one old oak. How they all work together to form a system.
Second person: We have so much to learn from nature. Things like...
Panel 2 (caption): Eating the weak...
(A predator stands over a prey animal's carcass.)
Panel 3 (caption): Fighting so that you can claim the most females...
(Two horned animals lock horns.)
Panel 4 (caption): Poisoning soil so your neighbor can't grow...
(A lone tree on barren, poisoned ground.)
Panel 5 (caption): Paralyzing other creatures and using their still-living bodies as incubators for offspring...
(A wasp-like insect.)
Panel 6: The enthusiastic man (with one finger raised) and his companion stand in the grass.
Companion: I meant the tiny percent of nature that isn't horrible!
Enthusiastic man (both fingers raised, eyes wide): Circle of liiiiiiiiife!
Votey:
A speech bubble pointing off-panel, with a person's face in the lower right.
Voice (off-panel): But animals never make war, except for the ones that do.
First person: It's amazing just how many life forms live on, in, and around just one old oak. How they all work together to form a system.
Second person: We have so much to learn from nature. Things like...
Panel 2 (caption): Eating the weak...
(A predator stands over a prey animal's carcass.)
Panel 3 (caption): Fighting so that you can claim the most females...
(Two horned animals lock horns.)
Panel 4 (caption): Poisoning soil so your neighbor can't grow...
(A lone tree on barren, poisoned ground.)
Panel 5 (caption): Paralyzing other creatures and using their still-living bodies as incubators for offspring...
(A wasp-like insect.)
Panel 6: The enthusiastic man (with one finger raised) and his companion stand in the grass.
Companion: I meant the tiny percent of nature that isn't horrible!
Enthusiastic man (both fingers raised, eyes wide): Circle of liiiiiiiiife!
Votey:
A speech bubble pointing off-panel, with a person's face in the lower right.
Voice (off-panel): But animals never make war, except for the ones that do.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: two people stand under a big old oak; one marvels that so many life forms work together to form a system, and the other says we have so much to learn from nature, things like... Panels 2-5 each show a grim caption with a matching image: 'Eating the weak' (a predator over a carcass), 'Fighting so that you can claim the most females' (two horned animals clashing), 'Poisoning soil so your neighbor can't grow' (a lone tree on dead ground), and 'Paralyzing other creatures and using their still-living bodies as incubators for offspring' (a wasp-like insect). Panel 6: the companion, exasperated, says 'I meant the tiny percent of nature that isn't horrible!' while the enthusiastic man, eyes wide and both fingers raised, joyfully exclaims 'Circle of liiiiiiiiife!' Votey: an off-panel voice over a person's face adds, 'But animals never make war, except for the ones that do.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.