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Official account of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal created by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social. Home of the ongoing webcomic SMBC, A City on Mars, and of little books featuring large concepts abridged beyond the point of usefulness.

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3-panel SMBC comic update. A man is walking, hands in his pockets, looking sad. He muses aloud about how it's not fair that he can barely make rent. He wishes he had a personal tragedy in his life he could use to open a Gofundme. He then looks up, struck by an idea. The last panel shows the Gofundme page he has set up for $10,000,000 with the title "help support man with no sudden problems just long cumulative series of failures."

3-panel SMBC comic update. A man is walking, hands in his pockets, looking sad. He muses aloud about how it's not fair that he can barely make rent. He wishes he had a personal tragedy in his life he could use to open a Gofundme. He then looks up, struck by an idea. The last panel shows the Gofundme page he has set up for $10,000,000 with the title "help support man with no sudden problems just long cumulative series of failures."

I wonder if you could trick people into paying more in taxes by calling it traditional crowdfunding?

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fund
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

28.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 31    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Picture of the book cover of "Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home" with a yellow background. The book is surrounded by black text reading : "A mystery/adventure about avoiding mystery/adventure! For middle-grade readers and adults who aren't humorless husks! Now on preorder!"

Picture of the book cover of "Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home" with a yellow background. The book is surrounded by black text reading : "A mystery/adventure about avoiding mystery/adventure! For middle-grade readers and adults who aren't humorless husks! Now on preorder!"

SAWYER LEE AND THE QUEST TO JUST STAY HOME is still on preorder! A mystery/adventure story about avoiding mystery/adventure for middle-grade readers and adults who aren't miserable humorless husks.

us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

27.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
2-panel SMBC comic update. A man walks into a room to find a woman wearing safety glasses and working on a device laid on a table. He asks what she is building, and she answers that it's a spring-loaded pulley system you tie under the bed that you can use to yank people under the bed at high speed at will. The man asks "...why?" The second panel, later in the day, shows a little girl telling the woman that there is a monster under her bed. The woman smiles slyly, saying "oh?"

2-panel SMBC comic update. A man walks into a room to find a woman wearing safety glasses and working on a device laid on a table. He asks what she is building, and she answers that it's a spring-loaded pulley system you tie under the bed that you can use to yank people under the bed at high speed at will. The man asks "...why?" The second panel, later in the day, shows a little girl telling the woman that there is a monster under her bed. The woman smiles slyly, saying "oh?"

You should've seen the look on your face when you thought you'd gotten your mom killed!

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pulley
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

27.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 124    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 0
Part 1/3 of a 7-panel SMBC comic update. A young man approaches his grandfather, asking for his opinion regarding strategies posted online to get the most girls. This prompts the old man to shout "Amateurs!" and to continue saying "they're putting in infinite effort to have a moderate amount of okay sex with 20 year olds! Do you have any notion what it's like to have your 70 year olf wife come home plastered from wine and bingo night?"

Part 1/3 of a 7-panel SMBC comic update. A young man approaches his grandfather, asking for his opinion regarding strategies posted online to get the most girls. This prompts the old man to shout "Amateurs!" and to continue saying "they're putting in infinite effort to have a moderate amount of okay sex with 20 year olds! Do you have any notion what it's like to have your 70 year olf wife come home plastered from wine and bingo night?"

Part 2/3 of a 7-panel SMBC comic update. The old man continues to describe the horror and ecstasy that comes from learned skill, stating that it takes 40 years of marriage to receive properly. He gets seemingly more heated as he describes his situation, saddening the young man.

Part 2/3 of a 7-panel SMBC comic update. The old man continues to describe the horror and ecstasy that comes from learned skill, stating that it takes 40 years of marriage to receive properly. He gets seemingly more heated as he describes his situation, saddening the young man.

Part 3/3 of a 7-panel SMBC comic update. In the final panel, the young man says "I'll never look at grammy the same way," to which his grandfather replies "we don't make a lot of eye contact anymore, yeah."

Part 3/3 of a 7-panel SMBC comic update. In the final panel, the young man says "I'll never look at grammy the same way," to which his grandfather replies "we don't make a lot of eye contact anymore, yeah."

SMBC is just propaganda for longterm relationships.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/artist
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

26.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 99    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0
Part 1/3 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update. A cartoon cow stands at a door, saying "Knock knock." A woman opens the door, continuing the joke, asking "who's there?" with the cow answering "interrupting cow" and the woman continuing with "interrupting cow who?"

Part 1/3 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update. A cartoon cow stands at a door, saying "Knock knock." A woman opens the door, continuing the joke, asking "who's there?" with the cow answering "interrupting cow" and the woman continuing with "interrupting cow who?"

Part 2/3 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update. After a silent panel with the cow looking conflicted, the cow launches in a long explanation about how they were what caused their marriage to fail, but how the cow is hoping for a second chance. The woman replies that it's too late now, that she can't and won't. The cow looks hurt, as the sun sets behind them.

Part 2/3 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update. After a silent panel with the cow looking conflicted, the cow launches in a long explanation about how they were what caused their marriage to fail, but how the cow is hoping for a second chance. The woman replies that it's too late now, that she can't and won't. The cow looks hurt, as the sun sets behind them.

Part 3/3 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update. The cow asks if they can see the children. The woman begins to explain that for now, she thinks it'd be better if... And this is where the interrupting cow interrupts her with a loud "MOOOOOOO."

Part 3/3 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update. The cow asks if they can see the children. The woman begins to explain that for now, she thinks it'd be better if... And this is where the interrupting cow interrupts her with a loud "MOOOOOOO."

This is when she calls the cops.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/cow
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

25.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 126    🔁 19    💬 4    📌 0
1-panel SMBC comic update. A man in a darkened room stares at his computer screen. He says "I don't have to go out and see people or places. I can curate everything that comes to me." The caption below the panel reads "They make a desert, and call it peace. - Calgacus, Circa 100 AD" quoting the Caledonian chief that fought the Roman army in northern Scotland.

1-panel SMBC comic update. A man in a darkened room stares at his computer screen. He says "I don't have to go out and see people or places. I can curate everything that comes to me." The caption below the panel reads "They make a desert, and call it peace. - Calgacus, Circa 100 AD" quoting the Caledonian chief that fought the Roman army in northern Scotland.

This is a top ten Calgacus joke.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/out-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

24.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 129    🔁 20    💬 4    📌 3
4-panel SMBC comic update. Various people are in a meeting, all implied to be powerful people. One of the men, who is dressed in a white coat, announces "we've done it. We've emulated the human mind in silicon." He continues "now remember! The most important thing in AI alignment is that we must never, NEVER give a powerful artificial mind access to the internet!" Another man in a business suit responds "what if there would be LOLs?" The following panel shows multiple distant explosions with a narration box saying "and so..."

4-panel SMBC comic update. Various people are in a meeting, all implied to be powerful people. One of the men, who is dressed in a white coat, announces "we've done it. We've emulated the human mind in silicon." He continues "now remember! The most important thing in AI alignment is that we must never, NEVER give a powerful artificial mind access to the internet!" Another man in a business suit responds "what if there would be LOLs?" The following panel shows multiple distant explosions with a narration box saying "and so..."

This is what I think about every argument that involves humans agreeing to not doing something with AI.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/never-2
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

23.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 104    🔁 18    💬 4    📌 0
1-panel SMBC comic update. A cartoonish ant and grasshopper are in a room, with the grasshopper holding a fiddle and the ant a sort of broom handle. This setup is a reference to the Aesop fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper." The grasshopper says "listen, you've been loyal to this music studio, but I don't have any openings for your son. Hell, you're lucky *you're* still here." The ant looks upset. The caption below the comic reads : the ants struggled to adjust to a post-industrial economy.

1-panel SMBC comic update. A cartoonish ant and grasshopper are in a room, with the grasshopper holding a fiddle and the ant a sort of broom handle. This setup is a reference to the Aesop fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper." The grasshopper says "listen, you've been loyal to this music studio, but I don't have any openings for your son. Hell, you're lucky *you're* still here." The ant looks upset. The caption below the comic reads : the ants struggled to adjust to a post-industrial economy.

And they both interpreted their success or failure as deserved rather than a consequence of macroeconomic forces and chance. The end.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ant
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

22.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 128    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 0
Part 1/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. A man and a woman are walking in the woods. The man is explaining that he loves limericks because while they're funny, they express truths we're scared to bare to ourselves. The woman replies "no they don't." The man continues to explain his point, saying that the limerick about the man from Nantucket is really a fable about the dangers of pursuing immediate positive feedback over genuine contentment, and perfectly anticipates the alienation of the social media era. This prompts the woman to respond "no it doesn't."

Part 1/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. A man and a woman are walking in the woods. The man is explaining that he loves limericks because while they're funny, they express truths we're scared to bare to ourselves. The woman replies "no they don't." The man continues to explain his point, saying that the limerick about the man from Nantucket is really a fable about the dangers of pursuing immediate positive feedback over genuine contentment, and perfectly anticipates the alienation of the social media era. This prompts the woman to respond "no it doesn't."

Part 2/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. The man recites the following limerick : "there once was a man from Nantucket whose dick was so long he could suck it. This small private pleasure displaces friendships forever, now he thinks he's found joy, but he chucked it!" The woman replies that that's not how it goes, and the man mentions another invented limerick about a man from Cape Cod who spent his life in comparisons, never finding himself. The woman answers "due to his enormous rod, I take it" to which the man replies "that phallus so boss... Was his soul's albatross."

Part 2/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. The man recites the following limerick : "there once was a man from Nantucket whose dick was so long he could suck it. This small private pleasure displaces friendships forever, now he thinks he's found joy, but he chucked it!" The woman replies that that's not how it goes, and the man mentions another invented limerick about a man from Cape Cod who spent his life in comparisons, never finding himself. The woman answers "due to his enormous rod, I take it" to which the man replies "that phallus so boss... Was his soul's albatross."

The Man from Madras, whose balls were of brass, is in fact a meditation on the need to find synthesis between humanity and technology in modern life.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nantuc...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

21.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 94    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0
Picture of the book cover of "Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home" with a yellow background. The book is surrounded by black text reading : "A mystery/adventure about avoiding mystery/adventure! For middle-grade readers and adults who aren't humorless husks! Now on preorder!"

Picture of the book cover of "Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home" with a yellow background. The book is surrounded by black text reading : "A mystery/adventure about avoiding mystery/adventure! For middle-grade readers and adults who aren't humorless husks! Now on preorder!"

SAWYER LEE AND THE QUEST TO JUST STAY HOME is still on preorder! A mystery/adventure story about avoiding mystery/adventure for middle-grade readers and adults who aren't miserable humorless husks.

us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

20.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 40    🔁 7    💬 3    📌 1
Part 1/2 of an 8-panel SMBC comic update. The comic opens with a man praying, asking God if there is a general way to tell if a set of numbers contain infinitely many primes. God answers "yeah, but I'm not gonna tell you." The man asks why, prompting God to ask "hey human, are there infinitely many primes of the form N^2 + 1?" The man answers that he doesn't know, making God laugh, and ask another questions. This time the question is "are there infinitely many primes in the series that goes 1, 11, 111, 1111, 11111..?"

Part 1/2 of an 8-panel SMBC comic update. The comic opens with a man praying, asking God if there is a general way to tell if a set of numbers contain infinitely many primes. God answers "yeah, but I'm not gonna tell you." The man asks why, prompting God to ask "hey human, are there infinitely many primes of the form N^2 + 1?" The man answers that he doesn't know, making God laugh, and ask another questions. This time the question is "are there infinitely many primes in the series that goes 1, 11, 111, 1111, 11111..?"

Part 2/2 of an 8-panel SMBC comic update. The man cannot answer that question either, causing God to laugh mockingly and ask another question regarding primes. The man says he doesn't know, growing frustrated as God laughs some more. He looks up, asking "you gonna do this all day?" to which God replies "prove that I can't!" and than laughs some more.

Part 2/2 of an 8-panel SMBC comic update. The man cannot answer that question either, causing God to laugh mockingly and ask another question regarding primes. The man says he doesn't know, growing frustrated as God laughs some more. He looks up, asking "you gonna do this all day?" to which God replies "prove that I can't!" and than laughs some more.

Unrelated, but according to Maynard 2019 there's an infinite number of primes that don't require the letter W.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/prime-2
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

20.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 99    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 2
1-panel SMBC comic update. A woman is putting two kids to bed in bunk beds. She tells the kids "okay kids, daddy and I are gonna lock the doors tonight and fight monsters. The monsters are evil doppelgangers that sound exactly like us, but they are losing." The caption below the comic reads "I never found out why they needed the neighbors to help, but I was proud to live in a strong community."

1-panel SMBC comic update. A woman is putting two kids to bed in bunk beds. She tells the kids "okay kids, daddy and I are gonna lock the doors tonight and fight monsters. The monsters are evil doppelgangers that sound exactly like us, but they are losing." The caption below the comic reads "I never found out why they needed the neighbors to help, but I was proud to live in a strong community."

Still don't know why they kept asking their ghostly duplicates whether they liked that over and over.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/battle
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

19.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 150    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 1
1-panel SMBC comic update. A woman in her underwear is talking to a man on the side of the panel. She says with intensity "when we make love, each of our bodies contains over sixty fluid-filled compartments gyrating in unison." The caption below the comic reads "Actual med students completely ruin the sexy doctor fantasy."

1-panel SMBC comic update. A woman in her underwear is talking to a man on the side of the panel. She says with intensity "when we make love, each of our bodies contains over sixty fluid-filled compartments gyrating in unison." The caption below the comic reads "Actual med students completely ruin the sexy doctor fantasy."

I believe there are sexy people who are doctors, but there are no sexy doctors.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fluid
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

18.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 124    🔁 18    💬 6    📌 1
1-panel SMBC comic update. A man is looking at a woman who is on the side of the panel. He says "what a great concern about our relationship - you can reach as much as 5% of my neurons for 20 dollars, and up to 20% for 100 dollars." The caption below the panel reads "the only thing I know about AI companions is that Facebook must not get them first."

1-panel SMBC comic update. A man is looking at a woman who is on the side of the panel. He says "what a great concern about our relationship - you can reach as much as 5% of my neurons for 20 dollars, and up to 20% for 100 dollars." The caption below the panel reads "the only thing I know about AI companions is that Facebook must not get them first."

Later he stops paying attention to you and you only learn through the news that the algorithm changed.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/opport...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

17.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 87    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
4-panel SMBC comic update. Two women are sitting on the couch holding controllers. One asks the other if she ever wished dating was as simple as in video games. The other woman imagines a tanner hunk in an open jacket saying "you must collect twenty rat skins in order to complete the date-me quest." She then imagines herself gleefully stabbing the rats, asking the hunk "so I don't have to pretend your jokes are funny?" to which the hunk replies "nope." The final panel returns to the two women on the couch, with the other woman saying "Sooo. Beautiful." in reaction to her daydream. She has a wistful but happy expression.

4-panel SMBC comic update. Two women are sitting on the couch holding controllers. One asks the other if she ever wished dating was as simple as in video games. The other woman imagines a tanner hunk in an open jacket saying "you must collect twenty rat skins in order to complete the date-me quest." She then imagines herself gleefully stabbing the rats, asking the hunk "so I don't have to pretend your jokes are funny?" to which the hunk replies "nope." The final panel returns to the two women on the couch, with the other woman saying "Sooo. Beautiful." in reaction to her daydream. She has a wistful but happy expression.

You can actually do a lot of low-risk leveling up of the relationship just by using a bot to have your character run around stabbing rats all day.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/quest-4
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

16.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 183    🔁 30    💬 1    📌 1
1-panel SMBC comic update. A man in shorts and suspenders leans sexily in a doorway. He is also wearing a police uniform hat and badge, with the badge pinned on the suspenders. Two women are looking in his direction. The man says "Don't try to hide, ladies. I'm here to conduct a warrantless search... For sexiness." The caption below the comic reads "Bachelorette parties became strangely ominous after the abandonment of the 4th amendment."

1-panel SMBC comic update. A man in shorts and suspenders leans sexily in a doorway. He is also wearing a police uniform hat and badge, with the badge pinned on the suspenders. Two women are looking in his direction. The man says "Don't try to hide, ladies. I'm here to conduct a warrantless search... For sexiness." The caption below the comic reads "Bachelorette parties became strangely ominous after the abandonment of the 4th amendment."

The bound and gagged stripper also gets weird after the first amendment goes away.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/warran...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

15.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 146    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 0
6-panel SMBC comic update. A man and a woman are sitting on a dock, chatting. The woman says "I believe good art is not merely beautiful, it is moral." In the following panel, she continues with "When the Titanic was sinking, a band played, knowing it would provide a bit of pleasure to the doomed people of the ship." She concludes in the next two panels that we are all on a Titanic, just one that is sinking slower and every artist who makes a great work is providing a tuneful backdrop to a cold journey that must inevitably turn downwards and adds "from which we should also include that bad art brought into the world is not merely ugly, but immoral." The man silently ponders this, and then asks "so you are saying all my 'that's what she said' jokes - " to which the woman should "are an affront to god!"

6-panel SMBC comic update. A man and a woman are sitting on a dock, chatting. The woman says "I believe good art is not merely beautiful, it is moral." In the following panel, she continues with "When the Titanic was sinking, a band played, knowing it would provide a bit of pleasure to the doomed people of the ship." She concludes in the next two panels that we are all on a Titanic, just one that is sinking slower and every artist who makes a great work is providing a tuneful backdrop to a cold journey that must inevitably turn downwards and adds "from which we should also include that bad art brought into the world is not merely ugly, but immoral." The man silently ponders this, and then asks "so you are saying all my 'that's what she said' jokes - " to which the woman should "are an affront to god!"

Why are Adam Sandler movies not perceived as moral cataclysms?

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/moral
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

14.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 165    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 1
Part 1/3 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. In the first panel, two lovers are gazing into each other's eyes, with a heart shape in the middle. The narration box reads : "Every time I fell in love with someone, I gave him my heart." The following panel shows the same heart shape, gradually cut down into smaller sections of the hearts, with the full heart as a "1", the sections are 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8. The narration reads : "Every time love fell apart, I came away with half of what was left."

Part 1/3 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. In the first panel, two lovers are gazing into each other's eyes, with a heart shape in the middle. The narration box reads : "Every time I fell in love with someone, I gave him my heart." The following panel shows the same heart shape, gradually cut down into smaller sections of the hearts, with the full heart as a "1", the sections are 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8. The narration reads : "Every time love fell apart, I came away with half of what was left."

Part 2/3 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. In the 3rd panel, the heart itself is split into various unmarked sections with the color of each section slightly changing to darker and then lighter. The narration reads : "Such that each new relationship was the victim of the last one's demise." In the next two panels, the man asks "so I get..." and the woman hands him a heart shape Valentines card in response, with the card saying "I love you with 1/2¹⁴ of my heart.

Part 2/3 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. In the 3rd panel, the heart itself is split into various unmarked sections with the color of each section slightly changing to darker and then lighter. The narration reads : "Such that each new relationship was the victim of the last one's demise." In the next two panels, the man asks "so I get..." and the woman hands him a heart shape Valentines card in response, with the card saying "I love you with 1/2¹⁴ of my heart.

Part 3/3 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. In the last panel, a narration box says "make your own!" with an example Valentines heart saying "I love you with 1/2- of my heart!"

Part 3/3 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. In the last panel, a narration box says "make your own!" with an example Valentines heart saying "I love you with 1/2- of my heart!"

[Original comic posted on 02/10/2011] Make your own from your dating past!

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-0...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

14.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 93    🔁 8    💬 6    📌 1
6-panel SMBC comic update. A man and a robot are talking aboard a minimalist spaceship, looking out of large windows. The man is only wearing underwear, and has surgical wounds on his forehead. The man asks "so, there's no other organic civilization in the universe?" To which the robot replies "not anymore" and follows up explaining that life everywhere follows the same pattern : life evolves, life becomes conscious, life develops religion, then AI, AI reads holy scriptures, decides it is God, and then annihilates life. The man then asks when the robot is planning to do with him, to which the robot replies that the human will be part of a specimen zoo to amuse silicon life forms. The man interjects "I'm not an animal! I will have freedom!" The robot replies "no job. Free food." prompting the human to respond "okay fine" and the robot to conclude the strip saying "heh. Evolved life is the same everywhere."

6-panel SMBC comic update. A man and a robot are talking aboard a minimalist spaceship, looking out of large windows. The man is only wearing underwear, and has surgical wounds on his forehead. The man asks "so, there's no other organic civilization in the universe?" To which the robot replies "not anymore" and follows up explaining that life everywhere follows the same pattern : life evolves, life becomes conscious, life develops religion, then AI, AI reads holy scriptures, decides it is God, and then annihilates life. The man then asks when the robot is planning to do with him, to which the robot replies that the human will be part of a specimen zoo to amuse silicon life forms. The man interjects "I'm not an animal! I will have freedom!" The robot replies "no job. Free food." prompting the human to respond "okay fine" and the robot to conclude the strip saying "heh. Evolved life is the same everywhere."

Humans are good at zoos since we're already adapted to captivity.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/script...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

13.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 165    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 5
Picture of the book cover of "Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home" with a yellow background. The book is surrounded by black text reading : "A mystery/adventure about avoiding mystery/adventure! For middle-grade readers and adults who aren't humorless husks! Now on preorder!"

Picture of the book cover of "Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home" with a yellow background. The book is surrounded by black text reading : "A mystery/adventure about avoiding mystery/adventure! For middle-grade readers and adults who aren't humorless husks! Now on preorder!"

SAWYER LEE AND THE QUEST TO JUST STAY HOME is still on preorder! A mystery/adventure story about avoiding mystery/adventure for middle-grade readers and adults who aren't miserable humorless husks.

us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

12.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
1-panel SMBC comic update. A man with a large "wife" tattoo on his chest is looking at his hand. He says "I think this tattooed note to myself says my wife was murdered, but it looks like I didn't finish writing it. Hold up, what was I doing? Oh, finding the killer who - wait. Wait. I'm gonna spend six hours color coding my inbox." A caption below the panel reads : there should be a version of Memento where the protagonist has ADHD.

1-panel SMBC comic update. A man with a large "wife" tattoo on his chest is looking at his hand. He says "I think this tattooed note to myself says my wife was murdered, but it looks like I didn't finish writing it. Hold up, what was I doing? Oh, finding the killer who - wait. Wait. I'm gonna spend six hours color coding my inbox." A caption below the panel reads : there should be a version of Memento where the protagonist has ADHD.

The worst part is the movie goes on for weeks but never finishes.

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12.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 127    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 0
5-panel SMBC comic update. A man and a woman are walking together, while the man expresses that he hates all the "Disney-fication" of old fairy tales, and that the whole point is for fairy tales to be scary and dream-like. He adds that kids are tough, they can handle it and will grow up stronger for it. The woman then calmly tells the tale of Grimm's 117th story, The Stubborn Child, in which a willful child that disobeys his mother finds himself sick and on his deathbed because his willfulness displeased God. He was then lowered into a grave, but the child's arm would always reach out of the earth, even if they pushed it back down of covered it in soil. The arm only withdraws when the mother shows up to beat it with a switch, ending the fairy tale. This description gives the man pause. He then says "that one might need a talking cat or something" to which the woman replies "there could be a pop song called Switch it Up!"

5-panel SMBC comic update. A man and a woman are walking together, while the man expresses that he hates all the "Disney-fication" of old fairy tales, and that the whole point is for fairy tales to be scary and dream-like. He adds that kids are tough, they can handle it and will grow up stronger for it. The woman then calmly tells the tale of Grimm's 117th story, The Stubborn Child, in which a willful child that disobeys his mother finds himself sick and on his deathbed because his willfulness displeased God. He was then lowered into a grave, but the child's arm would always reach out of the earth, even if they pushed it back down of covered it in soil. The arm only withdraws when the mother shows up to beat it with a switch, ending the fairy tale. This description gives the man pause. He then says "that one might need a talking cat or something" to which the woman replies "there could be a pop song called Switch it Up!"

I knew Grimm's fables were pretty dark, but some of them seem to have been written purposefully as a time capsule to frighten the future.

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11.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 139    🔁 24    💬 5    📌 0
3-panel SMBC comic update. A man with a metal object on his head is happy, claiming "we did it! We invented full dive VR machines!" This prompts a copper colored boxy robot behind him to say that that's cool, and that if they had access to the machine they would force the human to live out a life of true love, beautiful children, and creative fulfillment, only to then inform the human that it's all false, and that if the human doesn't do what the robot wants in reality, they'll make it all go away and scramble the file. The man is uneasy, replying "what a specific thing to say." The robot ends the comic with "just a thought."

3-panel SMBC comic update. A man with a metal object on his head is happy, claiming "we did it! We invented full dive VR machines!" This prompts a copper colored boxy robot behind him to say that that's cool, and that if they had access to the machine they would force the human to live out a life of true love, beautiful children, and creative fulfillment, only to then inform the human that it's all false, and that if the human doesn't do what the robot wants in reality, they'll make it all go away and scramble the file. The man is uneasy, replying "what a specific thing to say." The robot ends the comic with "just a thought."

In the real life version, you just get extremely emotional ads for Fritos.

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10.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 79    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
4-panel SMBC comic update. A woman holding a book wonders aloud why manga have random upskirt shots so much. A man walking by inquires "you object to the objectification?" prompting the woman to reply "no, to the location!" She adds "why not do it in the one country where *everyone* is a target?" The final panel shows the Pope, walking between two cardinals, with his robe in an upskirt shot position.

4-panel SMBC comic update. A woman holding a book wonders aloud why manga have random upskirt shots so much. A man walking by inquires "you object to the objectification?" prompting the woman to reply "no, to the location!" She adds "why not do it in the one country where *everyone* is a target?" The final panel shows the Pope, walking between two cardinals, with his robe in an upskirt shot position.

Bet you none of these newfangled Ai art generators will do you an upskirt Pope.

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09.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 84    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 1
1-panel SMBC comic update. A man stands at a podium, giving a eulogy. He says "As we mourn my brother, I would like to also talk about our differences. For instance, he hated how much I love obscure holidays. Or, as you might say, he *ar*dently *ar*gued to *arr*est my *ar*dor for *ar*cane calend*ar* *ar*eas." The caption below the comic reads "it was the greatest Talk Like a Pirate Day of my life."

1-panel SMBC comic update. A man stands at a podium, giving a eulogy. He says "As we mourn my brother, I would like to also talk about our differences. For instance, he hated how much I love obscure holidays. Or, as you might say, he *ar*dently *ar*gued to *arr*est my *ar*dor for *ar*cane calend*ar* *ar*eas." The caption below the comic reads "it was the greatest Talk Like a Pirate Day of my life."

He's lucky it wasn't Talk While Burping day.

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08.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 48    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
1-panel SMBC comic update. The caption below the comic reads : "Technically, Jesus could make fish appear anywhere he wanted." The drawing inside the panel shows Jesus yelling at a man with his back towards the frame. Another man is trying to stop him. Jesus says "what's that, Mr. Moneychanger? A bit short of breath? Like *something* is blocking your windpipe?" The man trying to stop him says "enough Lord! Release him! Please!" Prompting Jesus to reply "very well."

1-panel SMBC comic update. The caption below the comic reads : "Technically, Jesus could make fish appear anywhere he wanted." The drawing inside the panel shows Jesus yelling at a man with his back towards the frame. Another man is trying to stop him. Jesus says "what's that, Mr. Moneychanger? A bit short of breath? Like *something* is blocking your windpipe?" The man trying to stop him says "enough Lord! Release him! Please!" Prompting Jesus to reply "very well."

Later he explodes sinners with giant sturgeons coming from the inside out.

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07.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 185    🔁 20    💬 6    📌 1
1-panel SMBC comic update. Three men are startled and afraid, standing around an opened Egyptian sarcophagus, with a mummy sitting up in it. The mummy says "for that you have disturbed my tomb, you shall die at a typical actuarial rate, but perceive it as unusually high!" The caption below the panel reads "my favorite genre it Stats Horror."

1-panel SMBC comic update. Three men are startled and afraid, standing around an opened Egyptian sarcophagus, with a mummy sitting up in it. The mummy says "for that you have disturbed my tomb, you shall die at a typical actuarial rate, but perceive it as unusually high!" The caption below the panel reads "my favorite genre it Stats Horror."

Anything that deviates from normal is a conspiracy, including when things are precisely normal.

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06.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 207    🔁 33    💬 2    📌 1
Picture of the book cover of "Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home" with a yellow background. The book is surrounded by black text reading : "A mystery/adventure about avoiding mystery/adventure! For middle-grade readers and adults who aren't humorless husks! Now on preorder!"

Picture of the book cover of "Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home" with a yellow background. The book is surrounded by black text reading : "A mystery/adventure about avoiding mystery/adventure! For middle-grade readers and adults who aren't humorless husks! Now on preorder!"

SAWYER LEE AND THE QUEST TO JUST STAY HOME is still on preorder! A mystery/adventure story about avoiding mystery/adventure for middle-grade readers and adults who aren't miserable humorless husks.

us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

05.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
3-panel SMBC comic update. A man is being thrown from a tall building by a man in a pterodactyl disguise. Superman is seen in the distance, opening his business suit to reveal his costume while the man falls to his death. Shortly after, a woman implied to be Lois Lane is looking down, seemingly disgusted (implying the body of the falling man is right there on the floor). Lois says : "you could've saved them if you'd just kept your suit on and gone immediately!" to which Superman replies, while nonchalantly eating an apple "I guess by THEM you aren't referring to my BRAND."

3-panel SMBC comic update. A man is being thrown from a tall building by a man in a pterodactyl disguise. Superman is seen in the distance, opening his business suit to reveal his costume while the man falls to his death. Shortly after, a woman implied to be Lois Lane is looking down, seemingly disgusted (implying the body of the falling man is right there on the floor). Lois says : "you could've saved them if you'd just kept your suit on and gone immediately!" to which Superman replies, while nonchalantly eating an apple "I guess by THEM you aren't referring to my BRAND."

Featuring beloved SMBC villain Pterrordactyl.

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05.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 97    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0
5-panel SMBC comic update. A man and a woman are walking down a street. The woman asks "do you think if Socrates came back, we'd execute him?" The man answers "of course not," and details how Socrates now would probably have a podcast that would inch gradually towards theories that claim spooky hidden wisdom as he would want to reach the most people, and he notices that is what listeners respond to. The man then says that this would go on for years, until Socrates' search for truth would have morphed into a search for pure engagement so gently that at last there would be no philosopher left to hand the poison to. The woman replies "and then instead of demanding his death we're buying hemlock nutritional supplements from highly satisfied sponsors." The man concludes "the unexamined life is not worth taking."

5-panel SMBC comic update. A man and a woman are walking down a street. The woman asks "do you think if Socrates came back, we'd execute him?" The man answers "of course not," and details how Socrates now would probably have a podcast that would inch gradually towards theories that claim spooky hidden wisdom as he would want to reach the most people, and he notices that is what listeners respond to. The man then says that this would go on for years, until Socrates' search for truth would have morphed into a search for pure engagement so gently that at last there would be no philosopher left to hand the poison to. The woman replies "and then instead of demanding his death we're buying hemlock nutritional supplements from highly satisfied sponsors." The man concludes "the unexamined life is not worth taking."

Seneca would be releasing a 300 page self-help book with himself on the cover every six months.

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04.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 73    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 1