ideology
Original: ideology on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A young man with orange hair, in silhouette/dim light, asks an unseen presence.
Man: God, why do we seek status beyond what's desirable? Why do we care for strangers to believe we are clever, or wise, or rich?
God (yellow speech bubble): It's totally rational.
Panel 2:
God (yellow speech bubble): Because evolution designed us to seek status to acquire mates?
God (small yellow bubble): Nah.
Panel 3:
God (yellow caption-style bubble): Because after you die, every time someone says your name you get a free drink ticket in the afterlife.
Panel 4:
God (yellow caption-style bubble): Shakespeare's running a goddamned liquor firehose up here.
Panel 5:
Close profile of the orange-haired man listening, saying nothing.
Panel 6:
Wide shot of the man standing small in the dark, taking it in.
Panel 7:
Man: Hemingway must be loving it.
God (yellow bubble): He's in hell but VERY popular.
Votey:
A loosely sketched, distorted face with a speech bubble.
Voice: The capitalist class must feel the lash of a moderate increase in the capital gains tax!
A young man with orange hair, in silhouette/dim light, asks an unseen presence.
Man: God, why do we seek status beyond what's desirable? Why do we care for strangers to believe we are clever, or wise, or rich?
God (yellow speech bubble): It's totally rational.
Panel 2:
God (yellow speech bubble): Because evolution designed us to seek status to acquire mates?
God (small yellow bubble): Nah.
Panel 3:
God (yellow caption-style bubble): Because after you die, every time someone says your name you get a free drink ticket in the afterlife.
Panel 4:
God (yellow caption-style bubble): Shakespeare's running a goddamned liquor firehose up here.
Panel 5:
Close profile of the orange-haired man listening, saying nothing.
Panel 6:
Wide shot of the man standing small in the dark, taking it in.
Panel 7:
Man: Hemingway must be loving it.
God (yellow bubble): He's in hell but VERY popular.
Votey:
A loosely sketched, distorted face with a speech bubble.
Voice: The capitalist class must feel the lash of a moderate increase in the capital gains tax!
Alt text
An SMBC comic. A young man with orange hair stands in a dark space talking to God, whose replies appear as yellow speech bubbles. The man asks why we seek status, wanting strangers to think we are clever, wise, or rich. God says it's totally rational, dismisses the evolutionary mate-acquisition explanation ('Nah'), and reveals the real reason: after you die, every time someone says your name you get a free drink ticket in the afterlife. God adds that Shakespeare is running 'a goddamned liquor firehose up here.' The man considers this, then says, 'Hemingway must be loving it.' God replies, 'He's in hell but VERY popular.' Votey (bonus panel): a crudely sketched, exaggerated face shouts in a speech bubble, 'The capitalist class must feel the lash of a moderate increase in the capital gains tax!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.