Eat
Original: Eat on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man (orange/red hair, seen from behind): OH MY GOD, ALIENS! ARE YOU GOING TO EAT US?
The man: NO, NO, OF COURSE NOT.
An alien (a green alien with large black eyes, distant in the sky): NOT YET.
Panel 2:
The alien: THE RULE IS YOU CAN ONLY EAT BEINGS 8 TIMES DUMBER THAN YOU. RIGHT NOW WE'RE ONLY 6 TIMES SMARTER THAN YOU.
Panel 3:
The man: PHEW!
The alien: WE HAVE, HOWEVER, SEIZED CONTROL OF YOUR MEDIA AND POLITICS IN AN EFFORT TO SLOWLY TURN YOU INTO ETHICAL FOOD.
Panel 4:
The man (now seen in profile, face dawning with realization): SO MUCH IS SO CLEAR NOW.
The alien (in a flying saucer in the sky): SURELY YOU DIDN'T THINK YOU DID ALL THIS TO YOURSELVES?
Bottom credits: PATREON.COM/ZACHWEINERSMITH SMBC-COMICS.COM
Votey:
The alien (large smiling head): WOULD YOU LIKE SOME COMIC BOOKS?
A man (orange/red hair, seen from behind): OH MY GOD, ALIENS! ARE YOU GOING TO EAT US?
The man: NO, NO, OF COURSE NOT.
An alien (a green alien with large black eyes, distant in the sky): NOT YET.
Panel 2:
The alien: THE RULE IS YOU CAN ONLY EAT BEINGS 8 TIMES DUMBER THAN YOU. RIGHT NOW WE'RE ONLY 6 TIMES SMARTER THAN YOU.
Panel 3:
The man: PHEW!
The alien: WE HAVE, HOWEVER, SEIZED CONTROL OF YOUR MEDIA AND POLITICS IN AN EFFORT TO SLOWLY TURN YOU INTO ETHICAL FOOD.
Panel 4:
The man (now seen in profile, face dawning with realization): SO MUCH IS SO CLEAR NOW.
The alien (in a flying saucer in the sky): SURELY YOU DIDN'T THINK YOU DID ALL THIS TO YOURSELVES?
Bottom credits: PATREON.COM/ZACHWEINERSMITH SMBC-COMICS.COM
Votey:
The alien (large smiling head): WOULD YOU LIKE SOME COMIC BOOKS?
Alt text
A four-panel comic. An orange-haired man encounters a green alien with large black eyes. The man panics, asking if the aliens are going to eat humans. The alien says "Not yet," explaining the rule that they can only eat beings 8 times dumber than themselves, and right now they're only 6 times smarter than humans. The man sighs "Phew!" but the alien adds that they have seized control of human media and politics in an effort to slowly turn humanity into ethical food. In the final panel the man, shown in profile with a dawning look of realization, says "So much is so clear now," while the alien, now in a flying saucer, asks: "Surely you didn't think you did all this to yourselves?" The joke is that aliens are deliberately dumbing down humanity via media and politics to make us morally acceptable to eat. Votey (aftercomic): the smiling alien head asks, "Would you like some comic books?" — implying comics are part of the dumbing-down scheme.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.