Icarus
Original: Icarus on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Narration: Daedalus and Icarus were trapped in a tower, so they built wings of feathers and wax.
(A man with flame-like blond hair gestures toward a younger figure beside him.)
Panel 2:
Narration: Icarus flew too high, causing the wax to melt.
(A small figure with wings falls against a dark night sky.)
Panel 3:
The flame-haired man: Of course we know the sun is distant and nothing could cool it. The sun is so hot it cools the heat. Rather than heated them.
Panel 4:
A dark-haired woman: Which suggests someone built in a defect that was meant to do with warmth.
Panel 5:
The man: But how would we have access to the wing suit?
Label/sound: Daedalus
Panel 6:
The woman: Goodnight, cutie. Tomorrow we'll learn about how Daedalus actually still alive and working for the NSA.
Panel 7:
The man: I love you, dad.
The woman: Love you too, kid.
Panel 8 (small inset, bottom):
Narration / caption: Notes that for later episodes.
Votey:
A man (shown smiling): Next week, Sasquatch, followed by aliens, then a gentle segue into anti-Semitism.
Narration: Daedalus and Icarus were trapped in a tower, so they built wings of feathers and wax.
(A man with flame-like blond hair gestures toward a younger figure beside him.)
Panel 2:
Narration: Icarus flew too high, causing the wax to melt.
(A small figure with wings falls against a dark night sky.)
Panel 3:
The flame-haired man: Of course we know the sun is distant and nothing could cool it. The sun is so hot it cools the heat. Rather than heated them.
Panel 4:
A dark-haired woman: Which suggests someone built in a defect that was meant to do with warmth.
Panel 5:
The man: But how would we have access to the wing suit?
Label/sound: Daedalus
Panel 6:
The woman: Goodnight, cutie. Tomorrow we'll learn about how Daedalus actually still alive and working for the NSA.
Panel 7:
The man: I love you, dad.
The woman: Love you too, kid.
Panel 8 (small inset, bottom):
Narration / caption: Notes that for later episodes.
Votey:
A man (shown smiling): Next week, Sasquatch, followed by aliens, then a gentle segue into anti-Semitism.
Alt text
An SMBC comic. The main strip retells the myth of Daedalus and Icarus, who were trapped in a tower and built wings of feathers and wax; Icarus flew too high and the wax melted, shown as a small winged figure falling through a dark night sky. The bulk of the comic is a bedtime conversation between a flame-haired blond man and a dark-haired woman who reinterpret the myth as a conspiracy theory, arguing that the sun is too distant to melt wax so the wings must have had a built-in defect, and that Daedalus is secretly still alive and working for the NSA. They affectionately say goodnight, ending with "I love you, dad" and "Love you too, kid." In the votey aftercomic, a smiling man says, "Next week, Sasquatch, followed by aliens, then a gentle segue into anti-Semitism," mocking how conspiracy thinking escalates from harmless myths into bigotry.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.