Genera
Original: Genera on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A woman holding a pregnancy test stares at it excitedly.
Woman: AAH! A SECOND RED LINE! WE'RE PREGN--
Panel 2: A man beside her interrupts, leaning in to look.
Man: WAIT... IT'S NOT A LINE... IT'S...
Panel 3: Close-up of the pregnancy test in the woman's hand. Its display shows a jagged, spiky red curve rather than a clean line.
Man (continuing): ...A REAL-VALUED FUNCTION THAT'S CONTINUOUS EVERYWHERE BUT DIFFERENTIABLE NOWHERE.?
Panel 4 (wide bottom panel): The couple sits side by side on a red couch, both looking dismayed/deadpan, staring ahead. A caption banner stretches across the top of the panel.
Caption: IT'S A MATHEMATICIAN!
Votey: No drawn scene -- the aftercomic panel contains only small handwritten text reading: "THIS IS THE MATT PARKER STORY" (styled as if from a mathematician's notebook, alluding to mathematician/math communicator Matt Parker).
Woman: AAH! A SECOND RED LINE! WE'RE PREGN--
Panel 2: A man beside her interrupts, leaning in to look.
Man: WAIT... IT'S NOT A LINE... IT'S...
Panel 3: Close-up of the pregnancy test in the woman's hand. Its display shows a jagged, spiky red curve rather than a clean line.
Man (continuing): ...A REAL-VALUED FUNCTION THAT'S CONTINUOUS EVERYWHERE BUT DIFFERENTIABLE NOWHERE.?
Panel 4 (wide bottom panel): The couple sits side by side on a red couch, both looking dismayed/deadpan, staring ahead. A caption banner stretches across the top of the panel.
Caption: IT'S A MATHEMATICIAN!
Votey: No drawn scene -- the aftercomic panel contains only small handwritten text reading: "THIS IS THE MATT PARKER STORY" (styled as if from a mathematician's notebook, alluding to mathematician/math communicator Matt Parker).
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: an excited woman holds up a pregnancy test and shouts, "Aah! A second red line! We're pregn--". Panel 2: a man next to her interrupts, "Wait... it's not a line... it's...". Panel 3: a close-up of the pregnancy test shows not a straight line but a jagged, spiky red graph, as the man finishes "...a real-valued function that's continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere.?" -- a mathematical pathological curve (like the Weierstrass function). Panel 4: the deadpan couple sits glumly on a red couch while a banner declares "It's a mathematician!", punning on the announcement of a baby's sex. Votey (bonus panel): handwritten text reading "This is the Matt Parker story," a nod to the mathematician of that name.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.