atmosphere
Original: atmosphere on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bearded man in a suit (a speaker, addressing a crowd): WE HAVE TO GET CO2 OUT OF THE ATMOSPHERE! IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO STOP WARMING!
Panel 2:
A woman with red hair and dark round sunglasses, standing in the crowd: YES! YES! THE ATMOSPHERE IS THE PROBLEM!
Panel 3:
The red-haired woman in sunglasses, now ranting with raised fists: THE ATMOSPHERE HAS PLAGUED HUMANITY FOR YEARS! KNOCKING OVER BUILDINGS! POURING RAIN ON US! MAKING THE STARS HAVE ANNOYING TWINKLES! OBSCURING THE MOON HALF THE NIGHTS! IN FACT, WHILE WE'RE TAKING OUT THE CO2, LET'S REMOVE THE WHOLE DAMN THING!
Panel 4:
(The red-haired woman seen from the side, the rest of the crowd looking uneasy beside her. No dialogue.)
Panel 5:
Caption box: LATER, BACK AT THE ASTRONOMY DEPARTMENT.
An off-panel/unseen speaker (shown as a tall building/silhouette): HOW GOES YOUR ATTEMPT TO INFILTRATE AND CO-OPT THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT?
The red-haired woman replies: I FEAR THEY'RE CATCHING ON.
Votey:
The red-haired woman (now drawn as a black-and-white sketch): YOU KNOW, IF WE JUST DESTROYED EARTH, THE ATMOSPHERE WOULD GO AWAY.
A bearded man in a suit (a speaker, addressing a crowd): WE HAVE TO GET CO2 OUT OF THE ATMOSPHERE! IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO STOP WARMING!
Panel 2:
A woman with red hair and dark round sunglasses, standing in the crowd: YES! YES! THE ATMOSPHERE IS THE PROBLEM!
Panel 3:
The red-haired woman in sunglasses, now ranting with raised fists: THE ATMOSPHERE HAS PLAGUED HUMANITY FOR YEARS! KNOCKING OVER BUILDINGS! POURING RAIN ON US! MAKING THE STARS HAVE ANNOYING TWINKLES! OBSCURING THE MOON HALF THE NIGHTS! IN FACT, WHILE WE'RE TAKING OUT THE CO2, LET'S REMOVE THE WHOLE DAMN THING!
Panel 4:
(The red-haired woman seen from the side, the rest of the crowd looking uneasy beside her. No dialogue.)
Panel 5:
Caption box: LATER, BACK AT THE ASTRONOMY DEPARTMENT.
An off-panel/unseen speaker (shown as a tall building/silhouette): HOW GOES YOUR ATTEMPT TO INFILTRATE AND CO-OPT THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT?
The red-haired woman replies: I FEAR THEY'RE CATCHING ON.
Votey:
The red-haired woman (now drawn as a black-and-white sketch): YOU KNOW, IF WE JUST DESTROYED EARTH, THE ATMOSPHERE WOULD GO AWAY.
Alt text
A five-panel color comic. Panel 1: a bearded man in a suit speaks to a crowd: "We have to get CO2 out of the atmosphere! It's the only way to stop warming!" Panel 2: a red-haired woman wearing dark round sunglasses enthusiastically agrees, "Yes! Yes! The atmosphere is the problem!" Panel 3: she escalates into a fist-raised rant against the atmosphere itself: it has "plagued humanity for years," knocking over buildings, pouring rain, making stars twinkle annoyingly, and obscuring the moon half the nights, so "while we're taking out the CO2, let's remove the whole damn thing!" Panel 4: she stands stone-faced while the rest of the crowd looks uneasy. Panel 5: a caption reads "Later, back at the astronomy department," where a voice (from beside a tall building) asks her, "How goes your attempt to infiltrate and co-opt the environmental movement?" and she answers, "I fear they're catching on." The joke: she is an astronomer secretly trying to get rid of Earth's atmosphere because it interferes with stargazing. Votey (a black-and-white follow-up panel): the same red-haired woman muses, "You know, if we just destroyed Earth, the atmosphere would go away."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.