Terminal
Original: Terminal on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man with reddish-brown hair, glasses, and a maroon jacket stands on a stage, arms raised, addressing a crowd. He says: "AND WITH AI WE WON'T NEED APPS ANYMORE. WE'LL HAVE A SINGLE TERMINAL FROM WHICH YOU CAN FIND ANYTHING YOU WANT!"
Panel 2: A row of audience members shown from the chest up. A bald person in the center, holding their face in their hands, says: "THAT USED TO BE CALLED INTERNET!"
Panel 3: The man on stage, now flanked by two running robots, throws his arms up and shouts: "SEIZE HIM!" In the foreground, the bald audience member from Panel 2 grimaces.
Panel 4 (book promo banner): Text reads: "PATREON.COM/ZACHWEINERSMITH SMBC-COMICS.COM". Below: "OUR TWO NEW BOOKS PARENTING - AN SMBC COLLECTION AND SAWYER LEE AND THE QUEST TO JUST STAY HOME ARE AVAILABLE ON KICKSTARTER DURING MAY 2026!" Two book covers are shown: "PARENTING" and "SAWYER LEE AND THE QUEST TO JUST STAY HOME," both by Zach Weinersmith.
Votey: A rough hand-drawn sketch. A speech bubble reads: "BRING BACK MEMEPOOL!" Below, a loosely sketched figure (the bald audience member) appears to be drawing or pointing at scribbled lines, with rough doodles of a tangled diagram.
Panel 2: A row of audience members shown from the chest up. A bald person in the center, holding their face in their hands, says: "THAT USED TO BE CALLED INTERNET!"
Panel 3: The man on stage, now flanked by two running robots, throws his arms up and shouts: "SEIZE HIM!" In the foreground, the bald audience member from Panel 2 grimaces.
Panel 4 (book promo banner): Text reads: "PATREON.COM/ZACHWEINERSMITH SMBC-COMICS.COM". Below: "OUR TWO NEW BOOKS PARENTING - AN SMBC COLLECTION AND SAWYER LEE AND THE QUEST TO JUST STAY HOME ARE AVAILABLE ON KICKSTARTER DURING MAY 2026!" Two book covers are shown: "PARENTING" and "SAWYER LEE AND THE QUEST TO JUST STAY HOME," both by Zach Weinersmith.
Votey: A rough hand-drawn sketch. A speech bubble reads: "BRING BACK MEMEPOOL!" Below, a loosely sketched figure (the bald audience member) appears to be drawing or pointing at scribbled lines, with rough doodles of a tangled diagram.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic satirizing AI hype. Panel 1: A man with reddish hair, glasses, and a maroon jacket stands on a stage, arms raised before a crowd, declaring, "And with AI we won't need apps anymore. We'll have a single terminal from which you can find ANYTHING YOU WANT!" Panel 2: An audience member, a bald person holding their face in despair, calls out, "That used to be called Internet!" Panel 3: The speaker, now flanked by two robots running toward the heckler, throws up his arms and shouts, "Seize him!" while the bald heckler grimaces in the foreground. The joke: the grand AI vision is just a reinvention of the internet, and the visionary responds to that observation with force. A promo banner advertises two new Zach Weinersmith books, "Parenting" and "Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home," on Kickstarter during May 2026. Votey (bonus panel): A loose hand-drawn sketch with a speech bubble reading "Bring back memepool!" over a scribbly doodle of the heckler character.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.