future-2
Original: future-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Time traveler (armored figure in helmet): Dave! I'm you! You from the future!
Dave (red-haired man in red shirt): What?
Panel 2:
Time traveler: I've got to warn you about the atomic-
Dave: This is amazing! I invent a time machine! I am destined for glory!
Panel 3:
Dave: Life is on autopilot now, baby! I don't have to do a goddamn thing!
Time traveler (small, in background): what the...
Panel 4:
Dave: Not a goddamned thing!
(Dave lies down on the floor.)
Votey:
Time traveler (thought/narration): Maybe I'll build nuclear weapons instead of a time machine.
(Below the text is a drawing of the time traveler's helmeted head looking exasperated.)
Time traveler (armored figure in helmet): Dave! I'm you! You from the future!
Dave (red-haired man in red shirt): What?
Panel 2:
Time traveler: I've got to warn you about the atomic-
Dave: This is amazing! I invent a time machine! I am destined for glory!
Panel 3:
Dave: Life is on autopilot now, baby! I don't have to do a goddamn thing!
Time traveler (small, in background): what the...
Panel 4:
Dave: Not a goddamned thing!
(Dave lies down on the floor.)
Votey:
Time traveler (thought/narration): Maybe I'll build nuclear weapons instead of a time machine.
(Below the text is a drawing of the time traveler's helmeted head looking exasperated.)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: An armored, helmeted time traveler appears and tells a red-haired man, 'Dave! I'm you! You from the future!' Dave replies, 'What?' Panel 2: The traveler begins, 'I've got to warn you about the atomic-' but Dave excitedly interrupts, gesturing at himself: 'This is amazing! I invent a time machine! I am destined for glory!' Panel 3: A grinning Dave dismissively pushes the much smaller traveler away with his hand, declaring, 'Life is on autopilot now, baby! I don't have to do a goddamn thing!' The traveler mutters 'what the...' Panel 4: Dave lies sprawled on the floor saying, 'Not a goddamned thing!' while the traveler is gone, his atomic warning never delivered. Votey: The frustrated helmeted time traveler thinks, 'Maybe I'll build nuclear weapons instead of a time machine.' The joke: Dave's smug fatalism about his guaranteed future drives his exhausted future self to consider weapons of mass destruction instead.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.