priority
Original: priority on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Narration (top): JUST ONCE, I'D LIKE TO SEE A SCIENCE PAPER END LIKE THIS:
Boxed text (mock paper conclusion): This paper is not meant to be comprehensive or conclusive, but only a first step, taken in order to claim priority after someone else does the hard work.
Votey:
Handwritten text in a box: LOOK, I WENT TO ALL THE EFFORT OF DRAWING A COMIC AND YOU WANT A BONUS PANEL TOO?
Boxed text (mock paper conclusion): This paper is not meant to be comprehensive or conclusive, but only a first step, taken in order to claim priority after someone else does the hard work.
Votey:
Handwritten text in a box: LOOK, I WENT TO ALL THE EFFORT OF DRAWING A COMIC AND YOU WANT A BONUS PANEL TOO?
Alt text
A single-panel comic. At the top, hand-lettered narration reads: "JUST ONCE, I'D LIKE TO SEE A SCIENCE PAPER END LIKE THIS:" Below it is a bordered box containing a parody of a scientific paper's concluding sentence in serif type: "This paper is not meant to be comprehensive or conclusive, but only a first step, taken in order to claim priority after someone else does the hard work." The joke is that scientists sometimes rush out preliminary papers just to stake a claim and get credit before others do the real work. Votey (bonus panel): a hand-drawn box with handwritten text reading: "LOOK, I WENT TO ALL THE EFFORT OF DRAWING A COMIC AND YOU WANT A BONUS PANEL TOO?" — the cartoonist humorously complaining about being expected to provide the extra bonus panel.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.