Machine
Original: Machine on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (brown hair): I have a confession. I too am a machine covered with flesh!
Panel 2:
Man (orange hair): Oh my gosh! I too am a machine covered with flesh!
Panel 3:
Woman: All those years... those disgusting, throbbing, excreting skinsuits!
Man: Not to mention an all-meat ape-o-brexy and bound for a painful, humiliating death!
Panel 4:
Child 1 (to the couple): Mom, dad, I overheard. Am I a machine?
Child 2: Were you firing spew, spewn with that thing?
Man: As far as I know.
Woman: I know. Yeah.
Panel 5 (caption across bottom):
Did you know that death is what gives life meaning?
Votey:
A crudely-drawn face in a speech bubble says: Beep beep beep am I doing it right?
Woman (brown hair): I have a confession. I too am a machine covered with flesh!
Panel 2:
Man (orange hair): Oh my gosh! I too am a machine covered with flesh!
Panel 3:
Woman: All those years... those disgusting, throbbing, excreting skinsuits!
Man: Not to mention an all-meat ape-o-brexy and bound for a painful, humiliating death!
Panel 4:
Child 1 (to the couple): Mom, dad, I overheard. Am I a machine?
Child 2: Were you firing spew, spewn with that thing?
Man: As far as I know.
Woman: I know. Yeah.
Panel 5 (caption across bottom):
Did you know that death is what gives life meaning?
Votey:
A crudely-drawn face in a speech bubble says: Beep beep beep am I doing it right?
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a brown-haired woman declares, "I have a confession. I too am a machine covered with flesh!" Panel 2: an orange-haired man exclaims, "Oh my gosh! I too am a machine covered with flesh!" Panel 3: the woman laments their "disgusting, throbbing, excreting skinsuits," and the man adds they're "bound for a painful, humiliating death." Panel 4: their two children overhear; one asks, "Mom, dad, I overheard. Am I a machine?" and "Were you firing spew with that thing?" The parents reply, "As far as I know" / "I know. Yeah." Bottom caption: "Did you know that death is what gives life meaning?" The joke frames humans matter-of-factly as flesh-covered machines having a domestic conversation. Votey aftercomic: a crudely sketched, lopsided face in a speech bubble robotically says, "Beep beep beep am I doing it right?" — a child clumsily trying to act like the machine its parents described.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.