wonder-2
Original: wonder-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (red hair): Robots may be smart, but they cannot wonder.
Panel 2:
Robot: Why not?
Panel 3:
Woman: What? I dunno. It's just a set of noises that entered my ears and now come out my mouth.
Panel 4:
Woman: I wonder why.
Robot: Shh. I'm refreshing my email in case there's email.
Votey:
This comic will be featured in the forthcoming SMBC book "Zach Weinersmith has always been on the side of our robotic masters!"
Woman (red hair): Robots may be smart, but they cannot wonder.
Panel 2:
Robot: Why not?
Panel 3:
Woman: What? I dunno. It's just a set of noises that entered my ears and now come out my mouth.
Panel 4:
Woman: I wonder why.
Robot: Shh. I'm refreshing my email in case there's email.
Votey:
This comic will be featured in the forthcoming SMBC book "Zach Weinersmith has always been on the side of our robotic masters!"
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A red-haired woman speaks while a small gray robot sits beside her, saying "Robots may be smart, but they cannot wonder." Panel 2: The robot, now shown larger with a single yellow eye, replies "Why not?" Panel 3: The woman, looking uncertain, answers "What? I dunno. It's just a set of noises that entered my ears and now come out my mouth." Panel 4: The woman muses "I wonder why," and the robot, ignoring her, says "Shh. I'm refreshing my email in case there's email." The joke flips expectations: the human's reasoning is mindless reflex while the robot is absorbed in compulsive, very human-like email-checking. Votey (bonus panel): Black hand-lettered text inside a wobbly square border reads "This comic will be featured in the forthcoming SMBC book 'Zach Weinersmith has always been on the side of our robotic masters!'"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.