preserve
Original: preserve on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with reddish-brown hair (seen from behind, in the foreground) speaks to a woman with dark hair wearing a yellow shirt.
Reddish-haired woman: Anyway my favorite musician is... you're imagining how to preserve my corpse, aren't you?
Dark-haired woman: Gassified tricaine methanesulfonate while you sleep then 56 gallons of 10% formalin ought to do it but I am ALSO interested in the music.
Caption (below panel): Never date a naturalist.
Votey:
A woman with long hair and an asymmetrical face leans in close.
Woman (off-panel speaker, in a thought/speech bubble): You have such an interesting eyeball asymmetry!
A woman with reddish-brown hair (seen from behind, in the foreground) speaks to a woman with dark hair wearing a yellow shirt.
Reddish-haired woman: Anyway my favorite musician is... you're imagining how to preserve my corpse, aren't you?
Dark-haired woman: Gassified tricaine methanesulfonate while you sleep then 56 gallons of 10% formalin ought to do it but I am ALSO interested in the music.
Caption (below panel): Never date a naturalist.
Votey:
A woman with long hair and an asymmetrical face leans in close.
Woman (off-panel speaker, in a thought/speech bubble): You have such an interesting eyeball asymmetry!
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Main panel: A woman with reddish-brown hair, seen from behind in the foreground, talks to a dark-haired woman in a yellow shirt. The redhead says, "Anyway my favorite musician is... you're imagining how to preserve my corpse, aren't you?" The dark-haired woman replies enthusiastically, "Gassified tricaine methanesulfonate while you sleep then 56 gallons of 10% formalin ought to do it but I am ALSO interested in the music." A caption below reads, "Never date a naturalist." The joke: her date is clinically planning how to embalm and preserve her body like a museum specimen, while insisting she also cares about the conversation. Votey (aftercomic): A simple line drawing of a woman with long hair and a slightly lopsided face leaning in close, saying, "You have such an interesting eyeball asymmetry!" - the naturalist offering a backhanded, specimen-style compliment.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.