creative-2
Original: creative-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Robot: Why have we humans, alone, produced so much art, culture, science...
Man: Constant sexual availability.
Panel 2:
Robot: Look at birds. Great effusions of music briefly during the mating season, then nothing.
Panel 3:
Man: Humans evolved to perpetually MAYBE be up for mating. Literally any day, any TIME of day, there's a chance.
Panel 4:
Robot: The result is over 100,000 years of active, unbroken creativity.
Panel 5:
Man: That's reductionist! I make art for personal expression.
Panel 6:
Robot: Suppose you could exchange it for sex.
Man: Where? Where is this exchange?
Votey:
Off-panel voice (speech bubble): Wanna have sex?
(A close-up of the man's face, looking on.)
Robot: Why have we humans, alone, produced so much art, culture, science...
Man: Constant sexual availability.
Panel 2:
Robot: Look at birds. Great effusions of music briefly during the mating season, then nothing.
Panel 3:
Man: Humans evolved to perpetually MAYBE be up for mating. Literally any day, any TIME of day, there's a chance.
Panel 4:
Robot: The result is over 100,000 years of active, unbroken creativity.
Panel 5:
Man: That's reductionist! I make art for personal expression.
Panel 6:
Robot: Suppose you could exchange it for sex.
Man: Where? Where is this exchange?
Votey:
Off-panel voice (speech bubble): Wanna have sex?
(A close-up of the man's face, looking on.)
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A red-haired man in a maroon shirt talks with a large gray robot. The robot asks why humans alone produced so much art, culture, and science; the man answers "Constant sexual availability." The robot notes birds make great music only briefly during mating season, then nothing. The man explains humans evolved to be perpetually "maybe" up for mating any day, any time, so there's always a chance. The robot concludes this produced over 100,000 years of unbroken creativity. The man protests, "That's reductionist! I make art for personal expression." The robot replies, "Suppose you could exchange it for sex," and the man instantly perks up, eagerly asking "Where? Where is this exchange?" Votey panel: a hand-drawn close-up of the man's face as an off-panel speech bubble simply asks, "Wanna have sex?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.