omission
Original: omission on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man in a white shirt and tie stands beside a red car, talking to a woman with reddish-blonde hair in a dark blazer. A wooden fence is behind them.
Man: "...and the amazing thing is that no pollutants come out of the tailpipe. Just pure water."
Man: "I split the hydrogen from the oxygen using electricity created by burning panda habitat, fat from endangered rhinos, and a family of blue whales."
Woman: "Wow! How's it work?"
Caption (below the comic): This is what I visualize every time someone refers to fuel cell vehicles as "emissions free."
Votey:
A loose sketch of a whale.
Caption (speech text at top): "WHALE-HYDROGEN IS TECHNICALLY RENEWABLE."
A man in a white shirt and tie stands beside a red car, talking to a woman with reddish-blonde hair in a dark blazer. A wooden fence is behind them.
Man: "...and the amazing thing is that no pollutants come out of the tailpipe. Just pure water."
Man: "I split the hydrogen from the oxygen using electricity created by burning panda habitat, fat from endangered rhinos, and a family of blue whales."
Woman: "Wow! How's it work?"
Caption (below the comic): This is what I visualize every time someone refers to fuel cell vehicles as "emissions free."
Votey:
A loose sketch of a whale.
Caption (speech text at top): "WHALE-HYDROGEN IS TECHNICALLY RENEWABLE."
Alt text
An SMBC comic. A man in a white shirt and tie stands by a red car talking to a woman with reddish-blonde hair in a blazer, in front of a wooden fence. He says, "...and the amazing thing is that no pollutants come out of the tailpipe. Just pure water. I split the hydrogen from the oxygen using electricity created by burning panda habitat, fat from endangered rhinos, and a family of blue whales." She replies, "Wow! How's it work?" A caption below reads: "This is what I visualize every time someone refers to fuel cell vehicles as 'emissions free.'" The joke: hydrogen fuel cells are only as clean as the energy used to make the hydrogen. Votey (aftercomic): a rough sketch of a whale with the text, "WHALE-HYDROGEN IS TECHNICALLY RENEWABLE."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.