mate
Original: mate on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (with brown hair): I'm a big believer in evolutionary psychology.
Woman (with orange/red hair, red shirt): Meaning you've read the academic literature?
Panel 2:
Man: No, meaning when I analyze the behavior of other people, I do so by consulting an imaginary caveman in my brain.
Panel 3 (the man pictures the caveman; a thought bubble shows a bearded caveman holding a spear standing at the mouth of a cave):
Imaginary caveman (shouting, pointing): No more talk! Impress woman with access to calories!
Panel 4 (continued thought-bubble scene of the caveman):
Imaginary caveman: ...with access to calories!
Panel 5:
Man (now relaying the caveman's prompting out loud to the woman): Say, would you like for me to supply you food...
Imaginary caveman (still in thought bubble, pointing): More food than other mans have!
Panel 6:
Man: Are you trying to mate with me to produce offspring?
Woman: Whoa, whoa, that is where evolution and I part company.
Footer caption: This is a bonus comic brought to you by early buyers of my new book, A City On Mars. Preorders really help us, and result in bonus SMBC comics! Click here for more info. Thanks!
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Votey:
A close-up of the man's face. Speech bubble (the man): Calories are plentiful. Do you have kittens?
Man (with brown hair): I'm a big believer in evolutionary psychology.
Woman (with orange/red hair, red shirt): Meaning you've read the academic literature?
Panel 2:
Man: No, meaning when I analyze the behavior of other people, I do so by consulting an imaginary caveman in my brain.
Panel 3 (the man pictures the caveman; a thought bubble shows a bearded caveman holding a spear standing at the mouth of a cave):
Imaginary caveman (shouting, pointing): No more talk! Impress woman with access to calories!
Panel 4 (continued thought-bubble scene of the caveman):
Imaginary caveman: ...with access to calories!
Panel 5:
Man (now relaying the caveman's prompting out loud to the woman): Say, would you like for me to supply you food...
Imaginary caveman (still in thought bubble, pointing): More food than other mans have!
Panel 6:
Man: Are you trying to mate with me to produce offspring?
Woman: Whoa, whoa, that is where evolution and I part company.
Footer caption: This is a bonus comic brought to you by early buyers of my new book, A City On Mars. Preorders really help us, and result in bonus SMBC comics! Click here for more info. Thanks!
smbc-comics.com
Votey:
A close-up of the man's face. Speech bubble (the man): Calories are plentiful. Do you have kittens?
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A brown-haired man tells an orange-haired woman in a red shirt, 'I'm a big believer in evolutionary psychology.' She asks, 'Meaning you've read the academic literature?' He replies, 'No, meaning when I analyze the behavior of other people, I do so by consulting an imaginary caveman in my brain.' A thought bubble shows a bearded caveman with a spear standing at a cave mouth, shouting and pointing: 'No more talk! Impress woman with access to calories! More food than other mans have!' Prompted by the caveman, the man says to the woman, 'Say, would you like for me to supply you food... Are you trying to mate with me to produce offspring?' The woman recoils: 'Whoa, whoa, that is where evolution and I part company.' A footer notes this is a bonus comic for early buyers of the book A City On Mars. Votey: a close-up of the man's face as he asks, 'Calories are plentiful. Do you have kittens?'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.