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Original: parts on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
A dialogue between two unseen speakers, labeled by the comic as GOD and EVOLUTION. The whole comic is drawn as silhouetted tree-like / plant-like shapes against a teal background, with the conversation in speech bubbles.
GOD: God?
EVOLUTION: Yes, evolution?
GOD: We're gonna have to deal with some design constraints on animals.
EVOLUTION: Okay.
GOD: Biggest thing is we need to put the sex parts near the poop parts.
EVOLUTION: Wait?
GOD: How about the head or torso?
EVOLUTION: Legs and arms need to be free for movement and other complex manipulation.
EVOLUTION: We can go there but now I gotta reverse-engineer an upward poop-chute that routes around all the organs.
GOD: But now you're gonna have a doodad highway running throughout the body, plus I gotta keep it away from the delicate sensors on the face, plus it's a living animal, that whole area's gotta be cordoned off from waste, plus...
GOD: Yeah. Put the poop parts with the sex parts.
EVOLUTION: Next universe, can we do a 4-space dimension?
Votey: A black-and-white panel (in contrast to the teal main comic) showing a similar silhouetted plant/tree shape with a single speech bubble.
Speaker (unattributed): "Eff it, let's invent monotremes."
GOD: God?
EVOLUTION: Yes, evolution?
GOD: We're gonna have to deal with some design constraints on animals.
EVOLUTION: Okay.
GOD: Biggest thing is we need to put the sex parts near the poop parts.
EVOLUTION: Wait?
GOD: How about the head or torso?
EVOLUTION: Legs and arms need to be free for movement and other complex manipulation.
EVOLUTION: We can go there but now I gotta reverse-engineer an upward poop-chute that routes around all the organs.
GOD: But now you're gonna have a doodad highway running throughout the body, plus I gotta keep it away from the delicate sensors on the face, plus it's a living animal, that whole area's gotta be cordoned off from waste, plus...
GOD: Yeah. Put the poop parts with the sex parts.
EVOLUTION: Next universe, can we do a 4-space dimension?
Votey: A black-and-white panel (in contrast to the teal main comic) showing a similar silhouetted plant/tree shape with a single speech bubble.
Speaker (unattributed): "Eff it, let's invent monotremes."
Alt text
A webcomic drawn entirely as silhouetted tree- and plant-like shapes against a teal background, with a conversation in speech bubbles between two characters the comic identifies only as God and Evolution. They debate the engineering of animal anatomy: God insists the sex parts have to be placed near the poop parts. Evolution objects and suggests putting them on the head or torso instead, while the limbs stay free for movement. As they reason through routing waste away from organs, sensors on the face, and the rest of a living body, the constraints pile up until God concludes: "Yeah. Put the poop parts with the sex parts." Evolution wistfully asks if they can do a 4-space dimension in the next universe. The joke is that the awkward proximity of reproductive and excretory anatomy is framed as a reluctant engineering compromise. Votey (a separate black-and-white panel): a single silhouetted shape with a speech bubble reading "Eff it, let's invent monotremes." - the punchline gag being that monotremes (like the platypus) have a single cloaca that combines both functions.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.