Proof
Original: Proof on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Spider-Man: SPIDEY-SENSE, TINGLING.
A man with glasses (red shirt): WHAT?
Spider-Man: I SENSE DANGER.
Panel 2:
The man with glasses: YOU CAN JUST TELL IF THERE'S DANGER?
Spider-Man: YEAH.
Panel 3:
The man with glasses (now seen on a rooftop, calling out): WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Spider-Man (small, standing on the roof below): I SET A COMPUTER TO CHECK EACH EVEN NUMBER HIGHER THAN TWO TO CONFIRM IT'S THE SUM OF TWO PRIMES. IF IT EVER FINDS A COUNTEREXAMPLE, A HELICOPTER DROPS A PIANO ON YOUR HEAD.
Panel 4:
The man with glasses (smiling nervously): NOW, DO YOU FEEL ENDANGERED?
A piano falls from above toward Spider-Man with a sound effect: PIANO!
Panel 5:
The man with glasses (laughing, arms raised): HAHAHAHA! NOW YOU HAVE TO CALCULATE THE ODDS THAT THE PIANO WAS UNRELATED TO YOUR CONJECTURE, GIVEN THE EXISTENCE OF ME!
Spider-Man (crushed under the piano in a pool of blood, in the distance): CURSE YOU, GREEN GOBLIN!
The man (revealed to be the Green Goblin in disguise) flies away on a glider.
Votey:
Text in a hand-drawn box: PEANO-PIANO PUNS LEFT AS AN EXERCISE FOR THE STUDENT.
Spider-Man: SPIDEY-SENSE, TINGLING.
A man with glasses (red shirt): WHAT?
Spider-Man: I SENSE DANGER.
Panel 2:
The man with glasses: YOU CAN JUST TELL IF THERE'S DANGER?
Spider-Man: YEAH.
Panel 3:
The man with glasses (now seen on a rooftop, calling out): WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Spider-Man (small, standing on the roof below): I SET A COMPUTER TO CHECK EACH EVEN NUMBER HIGHER THAN TWO TO CONFIRM IT'S THE SUM OF TWO PRIMES. IF IT EVER FINDS A COUNTEREXAMPLE, A HELICOPTER DROPS A PIANO ON YOUR HEAD.
Panel 4:
The man with glasses (smiling nervously): NOW, DO YOU FEEL ENDANGERED?
A piano falls from above toward Spider-Man with a sound effect: PIANO!
Panel 5:
The man with glasses (laughing, arms raised): HAHAHAHA! NOW YOU HAVE TO CALCULATE THE ODDS THAT THE PIANO WAS UNRELATED TO YOUR CONJECTURE, GIVEN THE EXISTENCE OF ME!
Spider-Man (crushed under the piano in a pool of blood, in the distance): CURSE YOU, GREEN GOBLIN!
The man (revealed to be the Green Goblin in disguise) flies away on a glider.
Votey:
Text in a hand-drawn box: PEANO-PIANO PUNS LEFT AS AN EXERCISE FOR THE STUDENT.
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic parodying Spider-Man and the Goldbach conjecture. Panel 1: Spider-Man tells a bespectacled man in a red shirt, "Spidey-sense, tingling. I sense danger." Panel 2: The man asks, "You can just tell if there's danger?" Spider-Man answers, "Yeah." Panel 3: On a rooftop, the man calls down to a tiny Spider-Man, "What are you doing?" Spider-Man explains he set a computer to check every even number above two to confirm it's the sum of two primes (the Goldbach conjecture); if it ever finds a counterexample, a helicopter drops a piano on the man's head. Panel 4: The man asks, "Now, do you feel endangered?" just as a piano labeled "PIANO!" plummets from the sky toward Spider-Man. Panel 5: The man, now revealed to be the Green Goblin flying off on a glider, laughs that the real challenge is calculating the odds the piano was unrelated to the conjecture given the Goblin's existence; in the background, Spider-Man lies crushed under the piano in a pool of blood, gasping, "Curse you, Green Goblin!" Votey panel: a hand-drawn caption box reads, "Peano-piano puns left as an exercise for the student," a nod to mathematician Giuseppe Peano.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.