Cosmology
Original: Cosmology on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A professor (an older man in profile, with glasses) speaks to a young woman with glasses sitting across a desk with a computer monitor.
Professor: I honestly don't get it. You were on track for a PhD in cosmology and you just stopped working.
Panel 2: Close-up of the young woman, looking downcast, hand to her glasses.
Professor (off-panel): We can still give you a lesser degree for the work you did, but I just wish I understood.
Panel 3: A young man with curly hair, arms crossed, looking serious.
Young man: I have my reasons.
Panel 4 (captioned "LATER..."): At what appears to be a bar, a woman with orange/red hair and a red top talks to the young man, who holds a phone or drink to his ear.
Woman: So, what do you do for a living?
Young man: Me? I'm a...
Panel 5: Dramatic comic-book-style panel with bold lettering over a stylized background; the young man looks intense.
Text: MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE
Votey:
A simply-drawn face (the woman) with a speech bubble.
Woman: Can you buy me a drink?
Professor: I honestly don't get it. You were on track for a PhD in cosmology and you just stopped working.
Panel 2: Close-up of the young woman, looking downcast, hand to her glasses.
Professor (off-panel): We can still give you a lesser degree for the work you did, but I just wish I understood.
Panel 3: A young man with curly hair, arms crossed, looking serious.
Young man: I have my reasons.
Panel 4 (captioned "LATER..."): At what appears to be a bar, a woman with orange/red hair and a red top talks to the young man, who holds a phone or drink to his ear.
Woman: So, what do you do for a living?
Young man: Me? I'm a...
Panel 5: Dramatic comic-book-style panel with bold lettering over a stylized background; the young man looks intense.
Text: MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE
Votey:
A simply-drawn face (the woman) with a speech bubble.
Woman: Can you buy me a drink?
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: An older professor with glasses tells a young woman seated at a desk, "I honestly don't get it. You were on track for a PhD in cosmology and you just stopped working." Panel 2: Close-up of the dejected young woman as the professor continues, "We can still give you a lesser degree for the work you did, but I just wish I understood." Panel 3: A young man with curly hair, arms crossed, says flatly, "I have my reasons." Panel 4, labeled "LATER...": At a bar, a red-haired woman asks the same young man, "So, what do you do for a living?" He begins, "Me? I'm a..." Panel 5: In an over-dramatic, superhero-style splash panel with bold lettering, he declares himself "MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE" — the grandiose name he gives his abandoned cosmology career to impress her. Votey aftercomic: A roughly sketched woman's face with a speech bubble reading, "Can you buy me a drink?" — unimpressed by the dramatics.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.