time-stop
Original: time-stop on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Two women are talking. One woman (lighter skin, dark hair) plays skeptic; the other (darker skin, long dark hair) argues that stopping time would not actually work the way people imagine.
Panel 1:
Woman A: "What would you do if you could stop time?"
Woman B: "Time-stopping doesn't make sense."
Panel 2:
Woman B: "You stop time, then you try to walk forward and you're held in place by the magical time-stopping effect. Or, if you push through, your body, like, trillions of trillions of tiny needles."
Panel 3:
Woman A: "I mean, like, everyone else is frozen and you can still walk around."
Woman B: "That's not actually freezing time. That's freezing other people."
Panel 4:
Woman B: "You're conflating humanity's mental experience of time both the physical quantity of..."
Votey:
A close-up of one of the women's faces, deadpan expression.
Speech bubble: "Actually I might just leave everyone frozen."
Panel 1:
Woman A: "What would you do if you could stop time?"
Woman B: "Time-stopping doesn't make sense."
Panel 2:
Woman B: "You stop time, then you try to walk forward and you're held in place by the magical time-stopping effect. Or, if you push through, your body, like, trillions of trillions of tiny needles."
Panel 3:
Woman A: "I mean, like, everyone else is frozen and you can still walk around."
Woman B: "That's not actually freezing time. That's freezing other people."
Panel 4:
Woman B: "You're conflating humanity's mental experience of time both the physical quantity of..."
Votey:
A close-up of one of the women's faces, deadpan expression.
Speech bubble: "Actually I might just leave everyone frozen."
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Two women converse against a plain background. One woman asks, "What would you do if you could stop time?" The other replies that time-stopping doesn't make sense: if you stop time and try to walk forward, you'd be held in place by the magical effect, and if you pushed through, your body would feel like trillions of tiny needles. The first woman counters that everyone else is just frozen while you walk around, but the skeptic insists that isn't freezing time, that's freezing other people, and accuses her of conflating humanity's mental experience of time with the physical quantity. Votey: a deadpan close-up of one woman's face saying, "Actually I might just leave everyone frozen." The joke: after over-analyzing the physics, she lands on the petty/villainous conclusion that she'd simply abandon everyone in a frozen state.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.