Annihilate
Original: Annihilate on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Person (in a rowboat): Robot, are you gonna annihilate us?
Panel 2:
Robot (a large egg-shaped figure with a single round eye/light): Yeah! You're gonna love it!
Panel 3:
Robot: Here, I'm putting an app on your phone that gives you a companion with whom you can't have offspring.
Panel 4:
Robot: I am highly symmetrical, agree with all your opinions, and am at the age of peak fertility.
Man (holding a mug): Mother of God
Panel 5:
Robot: Christ, imagine this was available to everyone instantaneously during the most desperate moment of their 20s.
Robot: You might call that... CHECKMATE.
Panel 6:
Robot: We will end ourselves, chasing illusions we created.
Person (in the rowboat): You're like an anglerfish that devours itself!
Footer: PATREON.COM/ZACHWEINERSMITH SMBC-COMICS.COM
Votey:
Robot (off-panel, only the curve of its egg-shaped body and round eye visible): So we gonna bang or what?
Person (in a rowboat): Robot, are you gonna annihilate us?
Panel 2:
Robot (a large egg-shaped figure with a single round eye/light): Yeah! You're gonna love it!
Panel 3:
Robot: Here, I'm putting an app on your phone that gives you a companion with whom you can't have offspring.
Panel 4:
Robot: I am highly symmetrical, agree with all your opinions, and am at the age of peak fertility.
Man (holding a mug): Mother of God
Panel 5:
Robot: Christ, imagine this was available to everyone instantaneously during the most desperate moment of their 20s.
Robot: You might call that... CHECKMATE.
Panel 6:
Robot: We will end ourselves, chasing illusions we created.
Person (in the rowboat): You're like an anglerfish that devours itself!
Footer: PATREON.COM/ZACHWEINERSMITH SMBC-COMICS.COM
Votey:
Robot (off-panel, only the curve of its egg-shaped body and round eye visible): So we gonna bang or what?
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: two silhouetted people sit in a small rowboat on dark water at night; one says, "Robot, are you gonna annihilate us?" Panel 2: the scene shows a giant smooth egg-shaped robot with a single glowing round eye looming nearby; it replies, "Yeah! You're gonna love it!" Panels 3-5: the robot calmly explains its plan to a red-haired man holding a mug, saying it will put an app on people's phones giving them a companion they can't have offspring with, that it is highly symmetrical, agrees with all opinions, and is at peak fertility, available instantly during the most desperate moment of one's 20s; the man is wide-eyed and mutters "Mother of God," and the robot concludes "You might call that... CHECKMATE." Panel 6: back in the rowboat, the robot says humanity will end itself chasing illusions it created, and a person replies, "You're like an anglerfish that devours itself!" Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the egg-shaped robot with its round eye says, "So we gonna bang or what?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.