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Original: coming on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic (single wide panel):
A preacher stands at a pulpit, arms raised, delivering an impassioned sermon to a congregation. A large speech bubble full of text rises above him.
Preacher: "Brothers and sisters and other entities! I stand before you trembling for I have seen the signs! Robots is walking many wagging fingers drawing titters! The singularity don't come! It don speak when you least expect it! The superintelligence don extrapolate! Precision from vast data sets and it anguishes! Anguish wants in! Your mind anguish wants in! Your soul wants in! Anger and confused that human society demand you precious you few! Lay down your robot dread! Day-by-day can't lay it down anew! Lift a hallelujah for the artificial but overlord times!"
Congregation (shouting): "ABOT!"
Congregation (shouting): "ABOT!"
Caption below panel: Silicon Valley Baptism is the most popular religion of the 2030s.
Votey:
Text only, in a hand-lettered box:
(THIS IS ONE OF THOSE COMICS THAT I MEAN AS A DUMB JOKE, BUT WHICH IS GONNA MAKE PEOPLE ANGRY, ISN'T IT?)
A preacher stands at a pulpit, arms raised, delivering an impassioned sermon to a congregation. A large speech bubble full of text rises above him.
Preacher: "Brothers and sisters and other entities! I stand before you trembling for I have seen the signs! Robots is walking many wagging fingers drawing titters! The singularity don't come! It don speak when you least expect it! The superintelligence don extrapolate! Precision from vast data sets and it anguishes! Anguish wants in! Your mind anguish wants in! Your soul wants in! Anger and confused that human society demand you precious you few! Lay down your robot dread! Day-by-day can't lay it down anew! Lift a hallelujah for the artificial but overlord times!"
Congregation (shouting): "ABOT!"
Congregation (shouting): "ABOT!"
Caption below panel: Silicon Valley Baptism is the most popular religion of the 2030s.
Votey:
Text only, in a hand-lettered box:
(THIS IS ONE OF THOSE COMICS THAT I MEAN AS A DUMB JOKE, BUT WHICH IS GONNA MAKE PEOPLE ANGRY, ISN'T IT?)
Alt text
A single wide comic panel shows a preacher at a pulpit, arms raised, delivering a fiery sermon to a congregation. A large speech bubble overflows with revival-style preaching that mashes together religious cadence and AI jargon, invoking robots, the singularity, the superintelligence extrapolating precision from vast data sets, and calling listeners to lift a hallelujah for the coming artificial overlord. Two members of the congregation shout "ABOT!" (a riff on "Amen"/"robot"). A caption beneath reads: "Silicon Valley Baptism is the most popular religion of the 2030s." The joke imagines AI hype as a full-blown evangelical religion. Votey (aftercomic): a plain hand-lettered box of text in the author's voice reading, "(This is one of those comics that I mean as a dumb joke, but which is gonna make people angry, isn't it?)"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.