kept
Original: kept on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with flame-like orange hair (holding his hands up defensively): "You shouldn't kill our species!"
Panel 2 (close-up on the large gray robot's face, with a red light/eye below a yellow rectangular eye):
Robot: "Why!?"
Panel 3:
Man: "Because we are beneath your contempt; killing us would lower you in your own eyes."
Panel 4:
Robot (towering over the tiny man, who is now slumped/dejected): [no dialogue]
Panel 5:
Robot: "We will keep you alive but for safety you will depend on us for all food and shelter."
Panel 6:
Man (small, standing dejectedly): "Literally no one will object to that."
Votey:
Robot (speech bubble): "Do you also provide sex?"
The man stands below, appearing to wilt/deflate.
Man with flame-like orange hair (holding his hands up defensively): "You shouldn't kill our species!"
Panel 2 (close-up on the large gray robot's face, with a red light/eye below a yellow rectangular eye):
Robot: "Why!?"
Panel 3:
Man: "Because we are beneath your contempt; killing us would lower you in your own eyes."
Panel 4:
Robot (towering over the tiny man, who is now slumped/dejected): [no dialogue]
Panel 5:
Robot: "We will keep you alive but for safety you will depend on us for all food and shelter."
Panel 6:
Man (small, standing dejectedly): "Literally no one will object to that."
Votey:
Robot (speech bubble): "Do you also provide sex?"
The man stands below, appearing to wilt/deflate.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A small man with flame-like orange hair holds his hands up defensively toward a huge gray robot (its face has a tall yellow rectangular eye and a round red light), pleading, "You shouldn't kill our species!" A close-up of the robot bursts out, "Why!?" The man, looking strained, answers: "Because we are beneath your contempt; killing us would lower you in your own eyes." The robot looms enormous over the tiny man. The robot decides: "We will keep you alive but for safety you will depend on us for all food and shelter." The slumped little man replies, "Literally no one will object to that." The joke: his self-abasing argument to be spared backfires into total dependence, which he welcomes. Votey: the robot asks, "Do you also provide sex?" while the small man visibly wilts.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.