Life
Original: Life on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic:
Setting: A group of people stand inside a building. An arched stone doorway behind them bears a sign reading "HALL OF SEA LIFE."
Panel 1 (a person addressing the whales):
Person: "YES, I DO HAVE A QUESTION. HAVE ANY OF THESE SEA MAMMALS EVER DEVELOPED THE ABILITY TO TRANSMIT ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES INTO SPACE?"
Speech bubbles in response:
Voice: "WOO! GREAT, JUST CHECKING."
Another voice: "I... WHAT? NO."
Caption beneath the panel:
If whales ever developed radio, there would be centuries of ever more desperate distress signals coming from Earth, begging aliens to save them from us.
Votey:
A whale viewed from above/side, with motion or sound lines ("Wooooo") emanating from it.
Caption: "TRANSLATION: KILL THEM ALL. MAKE IT PAINFUL."
Setting: A group of people stand inside a building. An arched stone doorway behind them bears a sign reading "HALL OF SEA LIFE."
Panel 1 (a person addressing the whales):
Person: "YES, I DO HAVE A QUESTION. HAVE ANY OF THESE SEA MAMMALS EVER DEVELOPED THE ABILITY TO TRANSMIT ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES INTO SPACE?"
Speech bubbles in response:
Voice: "WOO! GREAT, JUST CHECKING."
Another voice: "I... WHAT? NO."
Caption beneath the panel:
If whales ever developed radio, there would be centuries of ever more desperate distress signals coming from Earth, begging aliens to save them from us.
Votey:
A whale viewed from above/side, with motion or sound lines ("Wooooo") emanating from it.
Caption: "TRANSLATION: KILL THEM ALL. MAKE IT PAINFUL."
Alt text
A black-and-white SMBC comic. Inside a building with an arched stone doorway labeled "HALL OF SEA LIFE," a small group of visitors stands together. One person asks aloud: "Yes, I do have a question. Have any of these sea mammals ever developed the ability to transmit electromagnetic waves into space?" Speech bubbles reply "Woo! Great, just checking" and, separately, "I... what? No." The caption below reads: "If whales ever developed radio, there would be centuries of ever more desperate distress signals coming from Earth, begging aliens to save them from us." Votey (aftercomic): a simple drawing of a whale with sound lines ("Wooooo") coming from it, captioned "Translation: Kill them all. Make it painful." The joke flips from whales pleading for rescue to whales calling down an alien extermination of humanity.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.