announcement
Original: announcement on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (Zach, the cartoonist, speaking to the reader):
Zach: ATTENTION SMBC READERS!
Panel 2:
Narration: You may know my wife Kelly as the person who scowls in the bonus panels. Her other lesser achievements include co-authoring pop sci books with me, co-discovering a new species, being president of scientific societies, etc.
Panel 3:
Narration: She's starting a new podcast with our friend/cosmologist Daniel Whiteson, called DANIEL AND KELLY'S EXTRAORDINARY UNIVERSE. Some upcoming episodes include a discussion of the biology of cannibalism, an interview with the THE EXPANSE guys*, and a tidy explanation of the fundamental nature of time and space.
Panel 4 (two people side by side; the man at left has a beard and glasses, the woman at right has glasses):
Label pointing to the man: Expert on nature of Universe
Label pointing to the man: Expert on gross stuff in space
Side panel (pink call-to-action box):
Text: Please click to check it out, or just look for it on whatever podcast app you like.
Text: Press Z for today's usual comic.
<3 Zach
Footnote at bottom: *TY FRANCK ONCE BROKE MY SHAMPOO BOTTLE. HE HAS NEVER APOLOGIZED.
Votey:
(Probably he's just resentful because I got a Hugo in the Related Works category, which none of the Expanse books did)
Zach: ATTENTION SMBC READERS!
Panel 2:
Narration: You may know my wife Kelly as the person who scowls in the bonus panels. Her other lesser achievements include co-authoring pop sci books with me, co-discovering a new species, being president of scientific societies, etc.
Panel 3:
Narration: She's starting a new podcast with our friend/cosmologist Daniel Whiteson, called DANIEL AND KELLY'S EXTRAORDINARY UNIVERSE. Some upcoming episodes include a discussion of the biology of cannibalism, an interview with the THE EXPANSE guys*, and a tidy explanation of the fundamental nature of time and space.
Panel 4 (two people side by side; the man at left has a beard and glasses, the woman at right has glasses):
Label pointing to the man: Expert on nature of Universe
Label pointing to the man: Expert on gross stuff in space
Side panel (pink call-to-action box):
Text: Please click to check it out, or just look for it on whatever podcast app you like.
Text: Press Z for today's usual comic.
<3 Zach
Footnote at bottom: *TY FRANCK ONCE BROKE MY SHAMPOO BOTTLE. HE HAS NEVER APOLOGIZED.
Votey:
(Probably he's just resentful because I got a Hugo in the Related Works category, which none of the Expanse books did)
Alt text
An SMBC comic where the cartoonist Zach makes a direct announcement to readers. He says "ATTENTION SMBC READERS!" then explains that his wife Kelly is best known as the person who scowls in the bonus panels, with "lesser achievements" like co-authoring pop science books with him, co-discovering a new species, and being president of scientific societies. He announces that she is starting a new podcast with cosmologist Daniel Whiteson called "Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe," with episodes on the biology of cannibalism, an interview with the writers of The Expanse, and the fundamental nature of time and space. A panel shows a bearded man in glasses labeled "Expert on nature of Universe" beside a woman in glasses labeled "Expert on gross stuff in space." A pink box invites readers to check out the podcast or press Z for the usual comic, signed "<3 Zach." A footnote jabs: "TY FRANCK ONCE BROKE MY SHAMPOO BOTTLE. HE HAS NEVER APOLOGIZED." The votey panel adds the punchline: "(Probably he's just resentful because I got a Hugo in the Related Works category, which none of the Expanse books did)."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.