sonnet-2
Original: sonnet-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (with reddish hair and beard): "You may be smarter than us, machine, but will you ever compose a perfect sonnet? Or a novel that changes the way we think about the meaning of existence?"
Robot: "...No."
Panel 2:
Man: "Fortunately those people are extremely rare!"
Robot: "We rounded up the 2,562 living people who meet your standard in various arts and sciences and have granted them immortality and perpetual bliss."
Panel 3 (silhouettes of two humans against a black background, the robot's arm/body visible at left): no dialogue.
Panel 4:
Man: "But what about--"
Robot: "We're opening a petting zoo for all the cute, stupid leftover humans."
Man: "Ah."
Panel 5:
Robot: "Would you like a handful of corn?"
Man: "Yes please."
Votey:
Robot (off-panel, speaking down to the man): "Now bleat like a goat."
Man: "M-A-A-A"
Man (with reddish hair and beard): "You may be smarter than us, machine, but will you ever compose a perfect sonnet? Or a novel that changes the way we think about the meaning of existence?"
Robot: "...No."
Panel 2:
Man: "Fortunately those people are extremely rare!"
Robot: "We rounded up the 2,562 living people who meet your standard in various arts and sciences and have granted them immortality and perpetual bliss."
Panel 3 (silhouettes of two humans against a black background, the robot's arm/body visible at left): no dialogue.
Panel 4:
Man: "But what about--"
Robot: "We're opening a petting zoo for all the cute, stupid leftover humans."
Man: "Ah."
Panel 5:
Robot: "Would you like a handful of corn?"
Man: "Yes please."
Votey:
Robot (off-panel, speaking down to the man): "Now bleat like a goat."
Man: "M-A-A-A"
Alt text
A five-panel comic. A bearded man challenges a large gray robot: even if the machine is smarter, will it ever compose a perfect sonnet or a novel that changes how we think about existence? The robot flatly answers "...No." The man says reassuringly that such talented people are extremely rare -- but the robot replies that it has already rounded up the 2,562 living humans who meet that standard in the arts and sciences and granted them immortality and perpetual bliss. A panel shows two human silhouettes against blackness. The man starts to object, "But what about--" and the robot explains it's opening a petting zoo for all the cute, stupid leftover humans; the man just says "Ah." The robot then offers him a handful of corn, and he happily replies "Yes please." In the votey aftercomic, drawn in rough black-and-white, the robot commands "Now bleat like a goat," and the man, now a zoo animal, obediently bleats "M-A-A-A."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.