lines
Original: lines on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Green alien (off-panel speaker): Anyway, the cool finding was that humans raised in an environment with only horizontal and vertical lines are unable to perceive objects with zerpital lines drawn on them.
Panel 2:
Man with flame-like orange hair (speech bubble): What's a zerpital line?
Green alien (speech bubble): Ha! Amazing!
Panel 3:
Wordless. The shirtless orange-haired man stands with electrode pads attached to his body; the green alien watches him.
Man (speech bubble): You can't see the drawing here?
Panel 4:
Green alien (speech bubble): It's just a blank piece of paper.
Panel 5:
Green alien, holding up a sheet of paper toward the man (speech bubble): Ahahahaha! Amazing!
Votey:
A single image: a hand-drawn black-outlined square (a blank piece of paper / blank square) on a white background.
Green alien (off-panel speaker): Anyway, the cool finding was that humans raised in an environment with only horizontal and vertical lines are unable to perceive objects with zerpital lines drawn on them.
Panel 2:
Man with flame-like orange hair (speech bubble): What's a zerpital line?
Green alien (speech bubble): Ha! Amazing!
Panel 3:
Wordless. The shirtless orange-haired man stands with electrode pads attached to his body; the green alien watches him.
Man (speech bubble): You can't see the drawing here?
Panel 4:
Green alien (speech bubble): It's just a blank piece of paper.
Panel 5:
Green alien, holding up a sheet of paper toward the man (speech bubble): Ahahahaha! Amazing!
Votey:
A single image: a hand-drawn black-outlined square (a blank piece of paper / blank square) on a white background.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. An alien scientist explains to a shirtless orange-haired human (wired up with electrode pads) that humans raised seeing only horizontal and vertical lines can't perceive objects drawn with 'zerpital' lines. The man asks, 'What's a zerpital line?' The alien just laughs, 'Ha! Amazing!' The man, looking at paper the alien holds, says he can't see any drawing; the alien replies it's 'just a blank piece of paper' and laughs delightedly, 'Ahahahaha! Amazing!' The joke: the man genuinely cannot perceive the zerpital-line drawing, so to him the paper looks blank, while the alien is gleefully fascinated. Votey: a hand-drawn black square outline on a white background, presumably the 'blank piece of paper' that actually contains a zerpital-line drawing the reader (like the human) cannot perceive.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.