XX
Original: XX on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A younger man in clerical garb (priest's collar), holding papers, stands in a stone room beside an older bald man, also in clerical garb, who gestures toward a lit furnace/fireplace on the right.
Younger priest (holding notes): "ALL I'M SAYING is when parthenogenic animals most closely related to humans have offspring, THOSE offspring have XX chromosomes."
Older priest (gesturing to the furnace): "Let's go ahead and hand those notes to Mr. Furnace over here."
Caption below the panel: "What if Jesus was only assigned male at birth?"
Votey:
A close-up of an exasperated cartoon face (the older priest), one eye wide, shouting.
Older priest: "...And you've completely ruined the word TRANSUBSTANTIATION!"
A younger man in clerical garb (priest's collar), holding papers, stands in a stone room beside an older bald man, also in clerical garb, who gestures toward a lit furnace/fireplace on the right.
Younger priest (holding notes): "ALL I'M SAYING is when parthenogenic animals most closely related to humans have offspring, THOSE offspring have XX chromosomes."
Older priest (gesturing to the furnace): "Let's go ahead and hand those notes to Mr. Furnace over here."
Caption below the panel: "What if Jesus was only assigned male at birth?"
Votey:
A close-up of an exasperated cartoon face (the older priest), one eye wide, shouting.
Older priest: "...And you've completely ruined the word TRANSUBSTANTIATION!"
Alt text
A single-panel comic set in a stone room. A young man in a priest's collar holds a stack of papers and says, "All I'm saying is when parthenogenic animals most closely related to humans have offspring, THOSE offspring have XX chromosomes." An older bald priest stands beside him and, gesturing toward a lit furnace on the right, replies, "Let's go ahead and hand those notes to Mr. Furnace over here" — i.e., he wants to burn the heretical argument. A caption under the panel reads: "What if Jesus was only assigned male at birth?" The joke pairs a biology-based argument that Jesus (born of a virgin, parthenogenesis-style) would genetically be XX/female with the Church's horrified rejection of it. Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the older priest's exasperated, wide-eyed face shouting, "...And you've completely ruined the word TRANSUBSTANTIATION!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.