golden
Original: golden on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Single panel: A horizontal timeline (number line) drawn left to right, with arrows pointing to three points along it.
Label at far left (pointing to the start of the line): "Dawn of Humanity"
Label in the middle, with a curved arrow pointing to a spot near the right end of the line: "Eradication of smallpox"
Label at upper right, with a curved arrow pointing to roughly the same spot at the right end of the line: "Creation of Social media"
Caption below the timeline: "I WAS BORN DURING A BRIEF GOLDEN AGE."
Votey:
Caption text (in parentheses): "(IF WE JUST WAITED FOR NUCLEAR WAR WE COULD'VE BEATEN BOTH AT THE SAME TIME.)"
Label at far left (pointing to the start of the line): "Dawn of Humanity"
Label in the middle, with a curved arrow pointing to a spot near the right end of the line: "Eradication of smallpox"
Label at upper right, with a curved arrow pointing to roughly the same spot at the right end of the line: "Creation of Social media"
Caption below the timeline: "I WAS BORN DURING A BRIEF GOLDEN AGE."
Votey:
Caption text (in parentheses): "(IF WE JUST WAITED FOR NUCLEAR WAR WE COULD'VE BEATEN BOTH AT THE SAME TIME.)"
Alt text
A single-panel comic showing a horizontal timeline of human history. An arrow at the far left labels the start of the line "Dawn of Humanity." Near the right end, two curved arrows point to almost the same spot: one labeled "Eradication of smallpox" and one labeled "Creation of Social media" -- placing these two events extremely close together at the end of history. The caption beneath reads: "I WAS BORN DURING A BRIEF GOLDEN AGE." The joke: the narrator's lifetime is the tiny window after smallpox was eliminated but before social media existed. Votey (aftercomic): a captioned panel reading "(IF WE JUST WAITED FOR NUCLEAR WAR WE COULD'VE BEATEN BOTH AT THE SAME TIME.)" -- darkly suggesting nuclear war would have ended both the disease-free era and the social-media era simultaneously.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.