Super
Original: Super on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Superman: Tell me, alien being, of the last days of Krypton.
Green alien: What? Like the last few days?
Panel 2:
Superman: The last days.
Green alien: The last what?
Panel 3:
Superman: Like, before it exploded.
Green alien: Expl... I just went there.
Panel 4:
(The green alien sits in a small saucer-like craft, looking up at Superman. No dialogue.)
Panel 5:
(Superman walks away, dejected, while the green alien remains in its saucer. No dialogue.)
Panel 6:
Superman: But... my parents told me... it... there was a note.
Panel 7:
(Close-up of Superman looking troubled beside the green alien. No dialogue.)
Panel 8:
Superman: This is like when Jimmy Olsen's dad told him he was just going out for cigarettes and would be right back, isn't it?
Green alien: Did Jimmy's dad boot him to space too?
Votey:
Superman (thought/spoken): I wonder if my parents' bodies are invincible like mine.
(Superman is shown curled up small at the bottom of the panel.)
Superman: Tell me, alien being, of the last days of Krypton.
Green alien: What? Like the last few days?
Panel 2:
Superman: The last days.
Green alien: The last what?
Panel 3:
Superman: Like, before it exploded.
Green alien: Expl... I just went there.
Panel 4:
(The green alien sits in a small saucer-like craft, looking up at Superman. No dialogue.)
Panel 5:
(Superman walks away, dejected, while the green alien remains in its saucer. No dialogue.)
Panel 6:
Superman: But... my parents told me... it... there was a note.
Panel 7:
(Close-up of Superman looking troubled beside the green alien. No dialogue.)
Panel 8:
Superman: This is like when Jimmy Olsen's dad told him he was just going out for cigarettes and would be right back, isn't it?
Green alien: Did Jimmy's dad boot him to space too?
Votey:
Superman (thought/spoken): I wonder if my parents' bodies are invincible like mine.
(Superman is shown curled up small at the bottom of the panel.)
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic. Superman stands talking to a small green big-eyed alien sitting in a tiny flying saucer. Superman asks the alien to tell him about the last days of Krypton. The alien is confused: 'What? Like the last few days?' Superman: 'The last days.' Alien: 'The last what?' Superman clarifies, 'Like, before it exploded,' and the alien replies, 'Expl... I just went there.' Superman walks away dejected, then returns, troubled: 'But... my parents told me... there was a note.' Finally Superman says it's like when Jimmy Olsen's dad said he was going out for cigarettes and would be right back. The alien asks, 'Did Jimmy's dad boot him to space too?' The joke: Superman is realizing his parents may have just abandoned him rather than heroically saving him from a doomed planet. Votey aftercomic: Superman, drawn curled up small, muses, 'I wonder if my parents' bodies are invincible like mine.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.