Forbidden
Original: Forbidden on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Duck: You forgot to bring a condom?
Beaver: Come on, baby. We're not even in the same clade.
Panel 2:
(Caption at top: LATER...)
(A duck and a beaver sit together on a red couch in a living room. On the floor in front of them are several small offspring that are hybrid platypus-like creatures — a blend of duck and beaver features.)
Votey:
(No text. A close-up illustration of one of the offspring's heads in stark black-and-white — a creature with a duck-like bill and a beaver/mammal-like furry head, i.e., a platypus.)
Duck: You forgot to bring a condom?
Beaver: Come on, baby. We're not even in the same clade.
Panel 2:
(Caption at top: LATER...)
(A duck and a beaver sit together on a red couch in a living room. On the floor in front of them are several small offspring that are hybrid platypus-like creatures — a blend of duck and beaver features.)
Votey:
(No text. A close-up illustration of one of the offspring's heads in stark black-and-white — a creature with a duck-like bill and a beaver/mammal-like furry head, i.e., a platypus.)
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: on a dark hilltop at night, a white duck and a brown beaver face each other. The duck says, "You forgot to bring a condom?" The beaver replies, "Come on, baby. We're not even in the same clade." Panel 2, captioned "LATER...": the duck and beaver now sit side by side on a red couch in a living room, while several small hybrid offspring — platypus-like babies combining duck bills with furry beaver bodies — lie on the floor in front of them. The joke: their reproductive incompatibility assumption was wrong, and the duck-beaver pairing produced platypuses. Votey (aftercomic): a stark black-and-white close-up of one platypus offspring's head, showing a duck-like bill on a furry mammalian head.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.