Comic Transcripts

CHUCK: Sometimes it feels IMPOSSIBLE to do anything healthy. Like there’s no way a society as complex and populous as ours can FUNCTION AT SCALE without inevitably filling our bodies and lives with cancer-causing pollutants.
BOB: Cancer’s the PRIZE, man. You MADE it. Nothing ELSE killed you.

CHUCK: But everything today is so ABERRANT. Our food has no nutrition. Our kids are hyperallergic. Everyone’s on psychiatric drugs.
BOB: Yet somehow we manage the LONGEST LIFE EXPECTANCY in human history.

CHUCK: A long life of WHAT? Diabetes? Wasting away to nothing as modern medicine pumps morphine into an ever-hollowing shell of what once was my life?
BOB: You’re right. Sign me up for smallpox instead.

{{Header: all-natural WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: Over the generations to come, some of us will die. Others of us will evolve into plastics.}}

#547; In which the Species is bettered transcribed by in

CHUCK: Sometimes it feels IMPOSSIBLE to do anything healthy. Like there's no way a society as complex and populous as ours can FUNCTION AT SCALE without inevitably filling our bodies and lives with cancer-causing pollutants.
BOB: Cancer's the PRIZE, man. You MADE it. Nothing ELSE killed you.

CHUCK: But everything today is so ABERRANT. Our food has no nutrition. Our kids are hyperallergic. Everyone's on psychiatric drugs.
BOB: Yet somehow we manage the LONGEST LIFE EXPECTANCY in human history.

CHUCK: A long life of WHAT? Diabetes? Wasting away to nothing as modern medicine pumps morphine into an ever-hollowing shell of what once was my life?
BOB: You're right. Sign me up for smallpox instead.

{{Header: all-natural WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: Over the generations to come, some of us will die. Others of us will evolve into plastics.}}

Over the generations to come, some of us will die. Others of us will evolve into plastics.

#547; In which the Species is bettered

  — August 28th, 2009

[ Tags: , , ]       Permalink: https://wondermark.com/c/547/

Buy a Print

Applications open for Genius Northwest – an IRL gaming competition

May 8, 2026 by David Malki !

Last year, I participated in Genius Northwest, a gaming competition inspired by the Korean gameshow The Genius and its ilk.

It’s a reality show without the cameras — a 3-day, all-inclusive weekend retreat structured around a series of challenges and puzzles, in which personalities and dealmaking matter as much as playing games.

It’s truly a remarkable thing. I came in dead last in the competition, but I still had a great time participating.

The event is held annually in the Pacific Northwest (hence the name) and applications are now open to participate in the 2026 competition!

Learn more — and apply — at GeniusNW.com.


Recent blog posts