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SMBC Comics
@smbccomics.bsky.social
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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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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · Jul 29
SMBC is a daily ongoing webcomic about science, people, the universe, and the weird stuff they generate.

◆ A CITY ON MARS - Now in paperback!◆
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Anyone claiming this comic has any actual perspective will be accused of being in league with JSquatch.

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Part 1/4 of an 11-panel SMBC comic update. In the first panels, the public make it clear they are sick of hearing politicians talking about policy and demand someone who insists all their problems are caused by shadowy forces that only that person can stop, encouraging political debate to become a conspiracy theory competition. Part 2/4 of an 11-panel SMBC comic update. In these panels, as political debate turns into a conspiracy theory competition, people holding out weird and stupid hope for their personal preference, and the failure of any party meeting any goals only increases the cynicism among the public, who grow distrustful of even the conspiracies. Part 3/4 of an 11-panel SMBC comic update. In these panels, politicians are forced to plumb to ever greater depths of madness merely to garner attention, leading to the last human political act, which was also the first honest one in decades, where fully immersive virtual reality and perpetual intravenous nutrient supply is promised. Part 4/4 of an 11-panel SMBC comic update. In these panels, aliens find Earth after all this. They are shocked, but not confused.
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Are 23 eggs not an oeuf for you?
(Pun brought to you by Patreon comments)

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5-panel SMBC comic update where a woman is at the bedside of her husband, explaining to him that she views end of life care as performative, adding that there is little evidence that it improves quality or length of life and that it signals affection because the family is willing to destroy vasts amounts of money on your behalf. Instead of doing that, she says she has bought 23 Fabergé eggs and set them on fire for her husband. The husband marvels as the jeweled egg-themed funeral pyre and says "wow. you must love me so much." The wife replies that this was actually the cheaper option.
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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You ever notice how weird it is that an immortal bothers to kill a bunch of people instead of just waiting 100 years?

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4-panel SMBC comic update where a woman is by her bed, praying to God. She asks Him why doesn't he answer prayers. God responds by asking how many times she has wishes death on a co-worker. She says that those were wishes not formally put into prayer. God asks what she she would do if she knew it'd work, prompting her to say that that's a trick question because someone else would have offer her first.
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Of all the AI concerns, the one about wanting to replace management with algorithms is the most monkeys-paw-ish.

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2-panel SMBC comic update. In the first panel, a man on public transport is looking down at his phone, seemingly reading something on the internet. The man says "It's not fair that robots are gonna take our jobs first! If they can replace us, why not replace the CEOs first?" The second panel shows the same man now in the office with the robot boss monitoring him. The boss says "I noticed you were way from your desk today, Todd." The man replies "I needed to use the bathroom", to which the robot replies "needed to or wanted to", implying that AI bosses would micromanage to an absurd degree.
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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How're you gonna get your girlfriend pregnant with a BEHAVIORAL addiction, man?

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4-panel SMBC comic update where a man is a suspicious coat and hat is trying to offer drugs to a young person ignoring them while scrolling on their phone. The man underlines that cocaine, meth and heroin were the collest addicitons when they were young. Still ignored, the man says "this generation is so lost."
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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After generations of family adventures, Sawyer Lee is determined to sink in the couch! The problem is that it will take a regrettable amount of energy for him to escape the mysteries, conspiracies, and gourd-based festivities the whole town throws his way.

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Part 1/3 of a 11-panel SMBC comic update where an avatar of the author is introducing his new book, Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home. In this section, the author describes the positive response to his previous illustrated middle-grade novel, Bea Wolf. Part 2/3 of a 11-panel SMBC comic update where an avatar of the author is introducing his new book, Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home. In this section, the author shows the cover and describes his motivation to write the book, namely to make his daughter giggle, gasp and say "Dad you can't do that!" Part 3/3 of a 11-panel SMBC comic update where an avatar of the author is introducing his new book, Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home. In this section, the author explains that there are no lessons or moralizing elements to the story, it's a story focused on fun. The author concludes the introduction to the book by mentioning the ongoing pre-orders, telling folks not to spoil the surprise ending, and thanking readers. Promotional image of Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home showing the book cover on a field of teal with hand-drawn stars. The caption prompts the viewer to read the first chapter online (link in the post).
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Fortunately, it turns out that all along he has been a placebo husband.

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1-panel SMBC update where a man holding flowers is shouting "What?!" which prompts a woman to reply "Turns out you can have a happy marriage without the wife feeling any genuine affection. Very counterintuitive, but that's science!" The caption beneath the panel reads : "On their 20th Anniversary, Dave was informed he was married to a placebo wife."
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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This is more easily executable with a three-wish genie, but it's good to be prepared for all circumstances.

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5-panel SMBC comic update where a man catches a wish-granting talking fish. The fish tells him : "Set me free and you may have anything. But whatever you get, I will instantly give it to your neighbor, twice." The man asks for a magic box that gives him all his neighbor's money one second after he receives any money. The final panel shows the man lounging in a pile of gold saying "infinite money gliiiiitch!" to the dismay of the magic fish, that says that this is why they hate logicians.
November 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The statue of Bayes also cries, but we can't ever be perfectly sure.

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1-panel SMBC comic update where two people are amazed that a statue is crying, an event referencing the weeping statue reported phenomenons that are said to happens on religious sculptures. The statue states : "Miracles are by definition a one-time intercession against the laws of reality, they are inherently nor provable. Waaaa! Waaaaaaaa!" The caption to the comic reads : Now and then, the statue of David Hume starts crying.
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Or maybe the corpses were a feint and the original Frenchmen are still waiting to strike.

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1-panel SMBC comic update where two men are looking into an obscured room, mentioning it's filled with dead Frenchmen and that they prefer to cover it up to avoid the paperwork. The caption reads : "Fun Fact : The statue of Liberty was originally meant as a Trojan Horse."
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Subscribe!

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Part 1/4 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update where a man and a woman are walking on a beach, and the man asks "do you think it's bad how our attention spans keep falling because everyone is glued to their phone?" The woman than explains that the attention span is actually larger then ever. She suggests that as technology and population grew, attention dropped, until it crossed over past zero into negative attention span, which is the ability to care deeply about what is worthless. She then gives several examples, and the man mentions that maybe that explains the Fermi Paradox - aliens avoiding us because they are all screen detoxing. Part 2/4 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update where a man and a woman are walking on a beach, and the man asks "do you think it's bad how our attention spans keep falling because everyone is glued to their phone?" The woman than explains that the attention span is actually larger then ever. She suggests that as technology and population grew, attention dropped, until it crossed over past zero into negative attention span, which is the ability to care deeply about what is worthless. She then gives several examples, and the man mentions that maybe that explains the Fermi Paradox - aliens avoiding us because they are all screen detoxing. Part 3/4 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update where a man and a woman are walking on a beach, and the man asks "do you think it's bad how our attention spans keep falling because everyone is glued to their phone?" The woman than explains that the attention span is actually larger then ever. She suggests that as technology and population grew, attention dropped, until it crossed over past zero into negative attention span, which is the ability to care deeply about what is worthless. She then gives several examples, and the man mentions that maybe that explains the Fermi Paradox - aliens avoiding us because they are all screen detoxing. Part 4/4 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update where a man and a woman are walking on a beach, and the man asks "do you think it's bad how our attention spans keep falling because everyone is glued to their phone?" The woman than explains that the attention span is actually larger then ever. She suggests that as technology and population grew, attention dropped, until it crossed over past zero into negative attention span, which is the ability to care deeply about what is worthless. She then gives several examples, and the man mentions that maybe that explains the Fermi Paradox - aliens avoiding us because they are all screen detoxing.
November 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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If God is all-good, there are a LOT of errors in the Bible.

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Part 1/2 of a 6-panel SMBC update where a group of people are listening to God telling them to go destroy the Canaanites because they are offering their children by fire the false god Moloch. One man in the group responds that God also requested child sacrifices (Isaac's son), which prompts God to reply that it's all good because He's real and also stopped the sacrifice. The man than points out that it took God three days to stop the sacrifice. Part 2/2 of a 6-panel SMBC update where a group of people are listening to God telling them to go destroy the Canaanites because they are offering their children by fire the false god Moloch. One man in the group responds that God also requested child sacrifices (Isaac's son), which prompts God to reply that it's all good because He's real and also stopped the sacrifice. The man than points out that it took God three days to stop the sacrifice.
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The one about purpose doesn't show up until you have to spend 12 hours a day at a repetitive job.

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4-panel SMBC udate where a man is asking the world-spirit if there are any universal myths all human cultures shared since the beginning. The world-spirit replies that 3 stories eventually appear, but they are all pretty negative because humans are dicks. The stories are that animals like to be eaten, women like being subservient, and that a someone or something is immortal / cannot die.
November 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Later, peace is reestablished when an MBA accidentally enters the lecture hall.

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8-panel SMBC update where a physicist is encouraging the humanities and the sciences to unite in their hatred of chemists. Sadly, due to infighting in the humanities, the chemists have an opening to murder the physicist.
November 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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"," > "",

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Black and white drawing showing a grammatical joke ("," > "",). The caption reads : "I discovered a way to start nerd-fights without using letters, numbers, or sound."
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Ironically, I had to censor this due to running ads, but... one day...

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1-panel SMBC comic update where multiple nude women are shown with pixelated chests. The caption reads : "NBC wishes to assure it's viewership that these enormous jiggling breasts are fully compliant with applicable FCC guidelines."
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Anyone who can figure out how to cram phi in there gets about 1.6 internet points.

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Black and white drawing showing a mathematical equation that is a playful nod to Euler's identity, an equation named after the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler. The caption beneath the drawing reads : "Weinersmith's Identity has been far less popular than Euler's Identity, despite having far more fundamental constants."
October 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Of course they'll never realize, but in your heart you'll have the linguistic upper hand.

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1-panel SMBC comic update where a man says to another: "Wow! That graduation speech was absolutely aweless!" to which the other responds "thank you so much!" The caption reads: Deceptive conversation tip: the archaic word "aweless" means "failing to inspire awe."
October 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Super cute!!

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2-panel SMBC comic update where a person turns down a screenplay by a bearded character in the first panel. The screenplay author says : "But it's educational! I made the talking cells super cute!" The second panel shows the two super cute cells. One says to the other : "We've been through so much. It was so unlikely for us to even be here. Now we have a chance! so ask yourself, are you a CANcer or a CAN'Tcer?"
October 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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This is my gift to you, Dads of Internet.

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4-panel SMBC comic update where the recurrent characters of the two kids discussing ethics and philosophy in a snowy landscape return once again. The kid in green is talking about how Emmanuel Kant is right and how math is ineffective at describing reality. The kid in yellow responds that they know the kid in green is wrong, but they need to think about why they wrong.
October 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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It's like going up to someone who doesn't know about conservation of energy, and telling them you have a wheel that never stops spinning, and expecting them to be blown away.

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4-panel SMBC comic update with the caption "This is why it's hard to explain quantum computing" where a woman is trying the to explain quantum computing slash use science to blow a guy's mind, and he receives every example she gives pretty flatly.
October 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Thanks so much to @blackiebooks.bsky.social for publishing @smbccomics.bsky.social and my book A City on Mars in Spanish!

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October 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Later he is caught and forced to not have all the money he moneyed.

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5-panel SMBC comic update where a patient confides to a doctor that he has been changing since the surgery. The doctor replies dramatically that they transplanted the heart of a criminal, prompting the patient to ask if the criminal was blue collar or white collar. Once the criminal is confirmed to be a white collar criminal, the patient excuses himself. The final image is a newspaper with the headline " Biotech company bankrupt after side effect in surgery trial."
October 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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It's not actually a metaphor. I just think of that scene.

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1-panel SMBC comic update where a person is pointing at an asteroid descending upon a graveyard. The person is saying " Oh my God! That asteroid is headed straight for the old cemetery! I hope all the corpses are okay!" The caption below the panel reads "This is what I imagine when people say AI will ruin social media."
October 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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That's another philosophical 'problem' put to bed by Zach Weinersmith.

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Part 1/3 of an 11-panel SMBC comic update where the recurrent characters of the two kids discussing philosophy in a snowy landscape return to do just that. In this strip, one proposes that ethics was resolved on April 7th, 1964 when the IBM system/360 came out and was able to solve any ethical dilemma by instantiating on a virtual island of apes and seeing if the population goes to zero. Seemingly, all scenarios drop the population to 0, prompting the kid in green to state that the only strategy that works is inconsistency. Part 2/3 of an 11-panel SMBC comic update where the recurrent characters of the two kids discussing philosophy in a snowy landscape return to do just that. In this strip, one proposes that ethics was resolved on April 7th, 1964 when the IBM system/360 came out and was able to solve any ethical dilemma by instantiating on a virtual island of apes and seeing if the population goes to zero. Seemingly, all scenarios drop the population to 0, prompting the kid in green to state that the only strategy that works is inconsistency. Part 3/3 of an 11-panel SMBC comic update where the recurrent characters of the two kids discussing philosophy in a snowy landscape return to do just that. In this strip, one proposes that ethics was resolved on April 7th, 1964 when the IBM system/360 came out and was able to solve any ethical dilemma by instantiating on a virtual island of apes and seeing if the population goes to zero. Seemingly, all scenarios drop the population to 0, prompting the kid in green to state that the only strategy that works is inconsistency.
October 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM