pain-3
Original: pain-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman: God, why am I here?
Panel 2:
God (unseen, speech from offscreen): This is an experiment to see if humans can feel pain.
Panel 3:
God (offscreen): If they do, it'd be unethical for us to eat them, but they're SOOO delicious.
The woman looks up.
Panel 4 (dark panel, woman in silhouette):
Woman: Obviously we feel pain.
God (offscreen): A bunch of electrical signals isn't REAL pain.
Votey:
God (offscreen, speech filling the top of the panel): Look, I've been fattening you things for 100 years now and I am not changing my mind.
A small figure (the woman) stands in silhouette at the bottom of the panel, looking up.
Woman: God, why am I here?
Panel 2:
God (unseen, speech from offscreen): This is an experiment to see if humans can feel pain.
Panel 3:
God (offscreen): If they do, it'd be unethical for us to eat them, but they're SOOO delicious.
The woman looks up.
Panel 4 (dark panel, woman in silhouette):
Woman: Obviously we feel pain.
God (offscreen): A bunch of electrical signals isn't REAL pain.
Votey:
God (offscreen, speech filling the top of the panel): Look, I've been fattening you things for 100 years now and I am not changing my mind.
A small figure (the woman) stands in silhouette at the bottom of the panel, looking up.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A woman talks with an unseen God whose dialogue appears in speech bubbles from offscreen. Panel 1, the woman asks, "God, why am I here?" Panel 2, God replies, "This is an experiment to see if humans can feel pain." Panel 3, God continues, "If they do, it'd be unethical for us to eat them, but they're SOOO delicious," as the woman looks up uneasily. Panel 4 is dark with the woman shown only in silhouette; she insists, "Obviously we feel pain," and God dismisses her: "A bunch of electrical signals isn't REAL pain." The joke is that God is rationalizing away human suffering to justify eating people, treating pain as not 'real.' Votey (aftercomic): a small silhouetted figure stands at the bottom of a panel looking up as God's voice fills the top, saying, "Look, I've been fattening you things for 100 years now and I am not changing my mind."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.