wow
Original: wow on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
God (off-panel, large speech bubble): DEAR GOD— HOLY SHIT! HUMANS ARE STILL AROUND!
Panel 2:
God: I AM FEELING SO MUCH NOSTALGIA!
(A bare-chested man with curly hair stands listening.)
Panel 3:
God: I STERILIZED THIS UNIVERSE AGES AGO, BUT I LEFT BEHIND ALL THE LIFE THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, TAKE CARE OF STERILIZING ITSELF.
Panel 4:
God: OH MAN! YOU GUYS HAD WHAT, A DOZEN CLOSE CALLS ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
Panel 5:
Man: YEAH.
God: WOW! I'M GONNA KEEP ONE OF YOU AFTERWARD AS A GOOD LUCK PENDANT.
Panel 6:
Man: AFTER WHAT? AFTER WHAT?
God: WAIT TILL I TELL THE OTHER GODS! THIS IS AMAZING!
Votey:
God (speech bubble): I'M GONNA GO CAUSE A DIPLOMATIC INCIDENT WITH A NUCLEAR POWER.
(The bare-chested man stands with a small, uneasy expression, sweating slightly.)
God (off-panel, large speech bubble): DEAR GOD— HOLY SHIT! HUMANS ARE STILL AROUND!
Panel 2:
God: I AM FEELING SO MUCH NOSTALGIA!
(A bare-chested man with curly hair stands listening.)
Panel 3:
God: I STERILIZED THIS UNIVERSE AGES AGO, BUT I LEFT BEHIND ALL THE LIFE THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, TAKE CARE OF STERILIZING ITSELF.
Panel 4:
God: OH MAN! YOU GUYS HAD WHAT, A DOZEN CLOSE CALLS ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
Panel 5:
Man: YEAH.
God: WOW! I'M GONNA KEEP ONE OF YOU AFTERWARD AS A GOOD LUCK PENDANT.
Panel 6:
Man: AFTER WHAT? AFTER WHAT?
God: WAIT TILL I TELL THE OTHER GODS! THIS IS AMAZING!
Votey:
God (speech bubble): I'M GONNA GO CAUSE A DIPLOMATIC INCIDENT WITH A NUCLEAR POWER.
(The bare-chested man stands with a small, uneasy expression, sweating slightly.)
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A booming, off-panel voice that turns out to be God speaks to a bare-chested, curly-haired man. God exclaims, 'DEAR GOD— HOLY SHIT! HUMANS ARE STILL AROUND! I AM FEELING SO MUCH NOSTALGIA!' God cheerfully explains, 'I STERILIZED THIS UNIVERSE AGES AGO, BUT I LEFT BEHIND ALL THE LIFE THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, TAKE CARE OF STERILIZING ITSELF.' God adds, 'OH MAN! YOU GUYS HAD WHAT, A DOZEN CLOSE CALLS ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS?' The man flatly answers 'YEAH.' God gushes, 'WOW! I'M GONNA KEEP ONE OF YOU AFTERWARD AS A GOOD LUCK PENDANT.' The man, alarmed, repeats 'AFTER WHAT? AFTER WHAT?' while God ignores him, delighted: 'WAIT TILL I TELL THE OTHER GODS! THIS IS AMAZING!' The joke: God designed humanity as a self-destruct mechanism and is thrilled by our near-misses, oblivious to the man's dawning horror. Votey: a single panel where the man sweats nervously as God casually announces, 'I'M GONNA GO CAUSE A DIPLOMATIC INCIDENT WITH A NUCLEAR POWER.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.