fire-3
Original: fire-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A running caveman (yellow tunic, red hair/beard): "STOP! STOP! NO MAKE FIRE!"
Panel 2 (a bald, bearded caveman, Pag, warms his hands at a campfire):
Pag: "FIRE AM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF PAG!"
Panel 3:
The running caveman: "YOU NO STEAL SPEAR. YOU NO STEAL ROCK. YOU NO STEAL CONCEPT OF FIRE!"
Panel 4 (Pag responds):
Pag: "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AM NOT NATURAL LAW! AM LEGAL FICTION! AM ONLY ACCEPTABLE WHEN PRODUCE POSITIVE RESULTS FOR SOCIETY!"
Panel 5:
The other caveman (angry): "ME GO TO SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY!"
Panel 6:
Caption: "SUBSEQUENTLY"
A caveman in a white headdress reading from a tablet/scroll: "RECORD SAY PRIOR ART BELONG TO TERRIBLE LIGHTNING GOD."
Panel 7 (rain falling):
A caveman: "ME HATE TERRIBLE LIGHTNING GOD!"
Votey:
A crude stick-figure drawing of a person being struck and thrown backward by a jagged lightning bolt.
A running caveman (yellow tunic, red hair/beard): "STOP! STOP! NO MAKE FIRE!"
Panel 2 (a bald, bearded caveman, Pag, warms his hands at a campfire):
Pag: "FIRE AM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF PAG!"
Panel 3:
The running caveman: "YOU NO STEAL SPEAR. YOU NO STEAL ROCK. YOU NO STEAL CONCEPT OF FIRE!"
Panel 4 (Pag responds):
Pag: "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AM NOT NATURAL LAW! AM LEGAL FICTION! AM ONLY ACCEPTABLE WHEN PRODUCE POSITIVE RESULTS FOR SOCIETY!"
Panel 5:
The other caveman (angry): "ME GO TO SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY!"
Panel 6:
Caption: "SUBSEQUENTLY"
A caveman in a white headdress reading from a tablet/scroll: "RECORD SAY PRIOR ART BELONG TO TERRIBLE LIGHTNING GOD."
Panel 7 (rain falling):
A caveman: "ME HATE TERRIBLE LIGHTNING GOD!"
Votey:
A crude stick-figure drawing of a person being struck and thrown backward by a jagged lightning bolt.
Alt text
A seven-panel SMBC comic with cavemen arguing about intellectual property. A running caveman shouts "STOP! STOP! NO MAKE FIRE!" at a bald bearded caveman (Pag) warming his hands at a campfire. Pag declares "FIRE AM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF PAG!" The runner protests: "YOU NO STEAL SPEAR. YOU NO STEAL ROCK. YOU NO STEAL CONCEPT OF FIRE!" Pag counters with a sophisticated legal argument: "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AM NOT NATURAL LAW! AM LEGAL FICTION! AM ONLY ACCEPTABLE WHEN PRODUCE POSITIVE RESULTS FOR SOCIETY!" The angry caveman says "ME GO TO SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY!" A caption reads "SUBSEQUENTLY," and a caveman in a white headdress consults a record: "RECORD SAY PRIOR ART BELONG TO TERRIBLE LIGHTNING GOD." In the rain, a caveman gripes "ME HATE TERRIBLE LIGHTNING GOD!" Votey: a crude stick-figure drawing of a person being struck and hurled backward by a jagged lightning bolt.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.