nerve
Original: nerve on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Off-panel voice (God): Sure, yeah, I'll see what I can do.
Panel 2:
God: Yeah, but I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to your enteric nervous system.
Woman (Diane): God, is that you?
Panel 3:
Diane: What?
God: The "second brain" that governs gut processes. It prays to me just like you.
Panel 4:
Diane: How?
God: It's got 100 million nerves. That's about the same as a rabbit. Give it some space.
Panel 5:
Diane: What did it request?
Panel 6:
God: I'm going to reach out and change your heart about liquor and cake, Diane.
Diane: Back off, God!
Votey:
Caption (speech, the gut/enteric nervous system speaking of God): He says so many things that people believe!
(A simple line-drawing of a smiling human face is shown below the caption.)
Off-panel voice (God): Sure, yeah, I'll see what I can do.
Panel 2:
God: Yeah, but I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to your enteric nervous system.
Woman (Diane): God, is that you?
Panel 3:
Diane: What?
God: The "second brain" that governs gut processes. It prays to me just like you.
Panel 4:
Diane: How?
God: It's got 100 million nerves. That's about the same as a rabbit. Give it some space.
Panel 5:
Diane: What did it request?
Panel 6:
God: I'm going to reach out and change your heart about liquor and cake, Diane.
Diane: Back off, God!
Votey:
Caption (speech, the gut/enteric nervous system speaking of God): He says so many things that people believe!
(A simple line-drawing of a smiling human face is shown below the caption.)
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A dark-haired woman in a red shirt, later named Diane, hears the voice of God. God says, "Sure, yeah, I'll see what I can do," then clarifies, "Yeah, but I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to your enteric nervous system." Confused, Diane asks, "God, is that you?" God explains that her gut's "second brain," which governs gut processes, prays to Him just like she does. Asked how, God says it has 100 million nerves, about the same as a rabbit, and to give it some space. Diane asks what it requested; God replies, "I'm going to reach out and change your heart about liquor and cake, Diane." Diane angrily points and shouts, "Back off, God!" In the votey aftercomic, a crude smiling line-drawn face (the gut/enteric nervous system) declares of God, "He says so many things that people believe!" The joke: the gut nervous system is a gullible little believer that God is using to talk Diane out of liquor and cake.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.