behold-3
Original: behold-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Alien (from a UFO): BEHOLD! WE HAVE TRAVELED THE GALAXY TO FIND OTHER MINDS!
Panel 2:
Man with flame-like orange hair (in a suit, gesturing welcomingly): COME! WE WILL INTRODUCE YOU TO OUR GREATEST SCIENTISTS AND MATHEMATICIANS!
Panel 3:
Alien (from the UFO): WHAT? THOSE PEOPLE ARE WORTHLESS. THEY'RE JUST FINDING OUT STUFF SOMEONE WAS GONNA FIGURE OUT ANYWAY.
Panel 4:
Man with flame-like orange hair: SO...
Alien (from the departing/hovering UFO): DO YOU HAVE ANYONE WHO WRITES LIMERICKS?
Votey:
Text written inside a hand-drawn frame:
There once was a species that died,
via comets we sent to collide.
The prevailing perspective?
The Prime Directive
Shouldn't always be strictly applied.
Alien (from a UFO): BEHOLD! WE HAVE TRAVELED THE GALAXY TO FIND OTHER MINDS!
Panel 2:
Man with flame-like orange hair (in a suit, gesturing welcomingly): COME! WE WILL INTRODUCE YOU TO OUR GREATEST SCIENTISTS AND MATHEMATICIANS!
Panel 3:
Alien (from the UFO): WHAT? THOSE PEOPLE ARE WORTHLESS. THEY'RE JUST FINDING OUT STUFF SOMEONE WAS GONNA FIGURE OUT ANYWAY.
Panel 4:
Man with flame-like orange hair: SO...
Alien (from the departing/hovering UFO): DO YOU HAVE ANYONE WHO WRITES LIMERICKS?
Votey:
Text written inside a hand-drawn frame:
There once was a species that died,
via comets we sent to collide.
The prevailing perspective?
The Prime Directive
Shouldn't always be strictly applied.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic set in a grassy landscape. Panel 1: A flying saucer hovers and an alien announces, "BEHOLD! WE HAVE TRAVELED THE GALAXY TO FIND OTHER MINDS!" Panel 2: A smiling man in a suit with flame-like orange hair spreads his arms and says, "COME! WE WILL INTRODUCE YOU TO OUR GREATEST SCIENTISTS AND MATHEMATICIANS!" Panel 3: The saucer replies dismissively, "WHAT? THOSE PEOPLE ARE WORTHLESS. THEY'RE JUST FINDING OUT STUFF SOMEONE WAS GONNA FIGURE OUT ANYWAY." Panel 4: The man, now tiny in the distance, says "SO..." as the saucer beams down a light and asks, "DO YOU HAVE ANYONE WHO WRITES LIMERICKS?" The joke: aliens value original creative work (limericks) over scientific discovery, which they consider inevitable and unremarkable. Votey: A hand-drawn frame containing a limerick, presumably written by the aliens: "There once was a species that died, / via comets we sent to collide. / The prevailing perspective? / The Prime Directive / Shouldn't always be strictly applied." It darkly reveals the aliens have annihilated a species with comets and reflect on it via verse.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.