tiny
Original: tiny on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (main):
Setting: the interior of an airplane cabin, looking down the aisle past rows of seated passengers.
Pilot (over the intercom): "This is your captain speaking. We did that thing again where we go fast and then the ground gets tiny. We expect the ground to get tinier for another 20 minutes and then stay that way for 2 hours and then get big again at the end."
Votey:
A close-up of a person's face.
Pilot (over the intercom): "In the event of a rapid ground-gets-big, please keep your seatbelts firmly fastened."
Setting: the interior of an airplane cabin, looking down the aisle past rows of seated passengers.
Pilot (over the intercom): "This is your captain speaking. We did that thing again where we go fast and then the ground gets tiny. We expect the ground to get tinier for another 20 minutes and then stay that way for 2 hours and then get big again at the end."
Votey:
A close-up of a person's face.
Pilot (over the intercom): "In the event of a rapid ground-gets-big, please keep your seatbelts firmly fastened."
Alt text
An SMBC comic. Main panel: a view down the aisle of a packed airplane cabin. The captain announces over the intercom, in plain childlike terms: "This is your captain speaking. We did that thing again where we go fast and then the ground gets tiny. We expect the ground to get tinier for another 20 minutes and then stay that way for 2 hours and then get big again at the end." The joke is the captain describing flight entirely in toddler vocabulary. Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of a passenger's blank face as the captain continues, "In the event of a rapid ground-gets-big, please keep your seatbelts firmly fastened" — reframing a crash as the ground simply getting big again.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.