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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!◆
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/639449...

◆ COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com
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◆ STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 2h

Check out the Amazon Prime Day Deals featuring BEA WOLF, our middle-grade graphic novel retelling of Beowulf, where trouble making kids must defend their tree house from a joyless neighbor with the power to instantly turn children into grown-ups.

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Bea Wolf sale promotional image featuring a blue-hued version of Bea in her teddy bear coat.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 20h

When biologists can't explain cubic wombat poop, why don't THEY call it a singularity?

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/beyond
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/c/ZachWeiner...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

2-panel SMBC comic update. The first panel has a narration box saying "Caveman" where two cavemen are looking out at the ocean. One says "us not know what on other side of ocean." The second panel has a narration box saying "Caveman Physicist" where the same caveman now says "Past ocean... Science breaks down. Is Ocean singularity" as the other caveman marvels.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 1d

Check out the Amazon Prime Day Deals featuring BEA WOLF, our middle-grade graphic novel retelling of Beowulf, where trouble making kids must defend their tree house from a joyless neighbor with the power to instantly turn children into grown-ups.

www.amazon.com/Bea-Wolf-Zac...

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 1d

In fairness to Adam and Eve, nowhere in Leviticus are you told not to obey a talking snake.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/steve
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/c/ZachWeiner...
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Part 1/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update where a man walks around with a stereotypical Bible thumping sign claiming "It's Adam & Eve NOT Adam & Steve." When confronted aobut his sign, the man underlines that Adam and Steve did nothing wrong while Adam and Eve doomed humanity to suffer on earth, so someone has to support Adam and Steve. The person confronting him joins him with a sign of their own.

Part 2/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update where a man walks around with a stereotypical Bible thumping sign claiming "It's Adam & Eve NOT Adam & Steve." When confronted aobut his sign, the man underlines that Adam and Steve did nothing wrong while Adam and Eve doomed humanity to suffer on earth, so someone has to support Adam and Steve. The person confronting him joins him with a sign of their own.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 2d

The worst part is the ocean of blood you can't see at the bottom of the last panel.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/prince...
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STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Part 1/3 of a 7-panel SMBC update where a [princess is frolicking near a tower, baiting a dragon. The dragon is harpooned out of the sky. a group of people then dress the dragon while the princess mentions dragon hunting was more sporting before harpoon guns,

Part 2/3 of a 7-panel SMBC update where a [princess is frolicking near a tower, baiting a dragon. The dragon is harpooned out of the sky. a group of people then dress the dragon while the princess mentions dragon hunting was more sporting before harpoon guns,

Part 3/3 of a 7-panel SMBC update where a [princess is frolicking near a tower, baiting a dragon. The dragon is harpooned out of the sky. a group of people then dress the dragon while the princess mentions dragon hunting was more sporting before harpoon guns,

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 4d

Etymology humor will continue until morale improves.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaa
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/c/ZachWeiner...
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3-panel SMBC comic update where a bespectacled woman states that "A" is the most versatile prefix as it can mean "towards" in Latin, "not" in Greek, and be an intensifier in Old English. Another woman replies that "it's aaaamazing," prompting the first woman to demand to know the quantities of A's used to determine if the comment was mean.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 5d

If I don't get some pedantic email I'll be forced to update my priors.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/priors
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/c/ZachWeiner...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Part 1/2 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update where a child asks his mom where priors come from. The mom replies that they come from a magical field where factuality flowers grow on big truth trees. The parents then state in a private setting that priors are formed by social media influence and misremembered facts from early education.

Part 2/2 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update where a child asks his mom where priors come from. The mom replies that they come from a magical field where factuality flowers grow on big truth trees. The parents then state in a private setting that priors are formed by social media influence and misremembered facts from early education.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 6d

Technically, there's no reason you can't set up this booth at your next farmer's market.

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STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

4-panel SMBC comic update where a parent expresses concern that another member of the parent-teacher organization has a strange booth at the fundraiser. Other parents say he is jealous because that booth is outselling his brownie booth 10-to-1. The concerning booth is selling "clean piss".

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 7d

Btw, the real life Dr. Whiteson, who podcasts with my wife, has a new book out called Do Aliens Speak Physics?

www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/807353...

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

Part 1/3 of a 9-panel SMBC update where physicists are forcibly sent on a long country hike because every great 20th century physics discovery has been found during a hike, and there hasn't been a comparable discovery since, so a hike is the obvious solution. The physicists start to note that the hike is actually much more relaxing then working in an office, so they solve physics quickly to retire to a pasture. A forced march for chemists is scheduled for the following Wednesday.

Part 2/3 of a 9-panel SMBC update where physicists are forcibly sent on a long country hike because every great 20th century physics discovery has been found during a hike, and there hasn't been a comparable discovery since, so a hike is the obvious solution. The physicists start to note that the hike is actually much more relaxing then working in an office, so they solve physics quickly to retire to a pasture. A forced march for chemists is scheduled for the following Wednesday.

Part 3/3 of a 9-panel SMBC update where physicists are forcibly sent on a long country hike because every great 20th century physics discovery has been found during a hike, and there hasn't been a comparable discovery since, so a hike is the obvious solution. The physicists start to note that the hike is actually much more relaxing then working in an office, so they solve physics quickly to retire to a pasture. A forced march for chemists is scheduled for the following Wednesday.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 8d

May I recommend the Look And Say Sequence, but don't complain to me if it starts getting weird.

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

Part 1/2 of a 7-panel SMBC comic update where a couple on a beach discuss why men have weird fetishes. The male character explains that men often fixate on unsexy things to last longer, and this formed a bridge between the worlds of sexy and unsexy.

Part 2/2 of a 7-panel SMBC comic update where a couple on a beach discuss why men have weird fetishes. The male character explains that men often fixate on unsexy things to last longer, and this formed a bridge between the worlds of sexy and unsexy.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 9d

You can trust analytic truth because you can trust analytic truth.

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

4-panel SMBC comic update where a woman comments that she hates the phrase "Trust the Science" (featured here on a t-shirt) because science is a never-ending process and at best we can say that we trust people with a greater expertise in a given question. She then reveals her ideal shirt slogan: Trust Analytic Truth P⮕P

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 10d

I keep trying to make people leave my Instagram but they won't STOP.

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

1-panel SMBC update where a disheveled man narrates to an unseen audience the cruel things he plans to do that day. The caption reads : Tragically, the antiparasociality movement soon developed a vast following.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 11d

Suddenly regretting not doing a run of plush glock-cats.

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

Part 1/4 of a 12-panel SMBC update where a cat robs a woman at gunpoint, monologuing about how humans have let soft cats into their homes, resulting in other cats becoming like humans. The woman comments that it's SO worth it.

Part 2/4 of a 12-panel SMBC update where a cat robs a woman at gunpoint, monologuing about how humans have let soft cats into their homes, resulting in other cats becoming like humans. The woman comments that it's SO worth it.

Part 3/4 of a 12-panel SMBC update where a cat robs a woman at gunpoint, monologuing about how humans have let soft cats into their homes, resulting in other cats becoming like humans. The woman comments that it's SO worth it.

Part 4/4 of a 12-panel SMBC update where a cat robs a woman at gunpoint, monologuing about how humans have let soft cats into their homes, resulting in other cats becoming like humans. The woman comments that it's SO worth it.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 12d

The print is back in stock, thank your patience!

smbc-store.myshopify.com/products/aut...

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 13d

This print was added to our store by popular demand.

PRINT ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com/products/aut...
ORIGINAL COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 12d

Edit of the comic!

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 12d

Around here we only do cis-substantiation, you hear?

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

1-panel SMBC comic update where a priest is prompting another to burn his research notes about the fact that parthogenic animals most closely related to humans usually have offspring with xx chromosomes. The caption reads : What if Jesus was only male-presenting?

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 13d

Who wants to get bitten by toycks??

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

Part 1/2 of a 5 panel SMBC comic updates where children marvel at specialized breeding making toy tigers, while fearing the toy cat-tarentula made ten years down the line.

Part 2/2 of a 5 panel SMBC comic updates where children marvel at specialized breeding making toy tigers, while fearing the toy cat-tarentula made ten years down the line.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 13d

This print was added to our store by popular demand.

PRINT ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com/products/aut...
ORIGINAL COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 14d

Enjoy the forthcoming smbc compilation on periclinal chimeras.

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

SMBC 4-panel update featuring cartoon versions of the artist and their family. The artist orders a plant, a periclinal chimera, which is a plant composed of tissues from two different species. The children are told to expect a mythical creature. They are disappointed.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 15d

Sometimes the apple gets stuck in sphincter 3 and she has to gently loosen it.

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

1-panel SMBC comic update featuring two trick-or-treaters dressed as a witch and Iron Man receiving candy from a woman pretending to be a bug in an odd and off-putting manner. The caption reads: We no longer go to the entomologist's house for Halloween.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 16d

You can do this with a metallic sharpie if you don't want to pay printing costs.

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

1-panel SMBC comic update showing a close-up of the cover of a Holy Bible. Under the title, a review is printed. The review says "Not bad" - Zach Weinersmith. The caption reads: Life tip: you can re-release any rights-free book, with an added blurb.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 17d

I believe we've been breeding each other for aww, but so far it hasn't been very successful.

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

Part 1/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update where a bespectacled man informs a red haired woman the everyone mispronounces "nuclear", even the dictionary.

Part 2/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update where a bespectacled man informs a red haired woman the everyone mispronounces "nuclear", even the dictionary.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 18d

I believe we've been breeding each other for aww, but so far it hasn't been very successful.

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

1-panel SMBC update where two women discuss breeding sheet. One of them asks the other if they are breeding them to "MMM", "AHH" or "AWW". The caption reads "Animal breeding is a 10,000 year quest to make every creature into food, clothes or babies.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 19d

How come nobody asks for all-powerful, all-knowing, and at least PRETTY good?

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

Part 1/2 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update where a man ask God to take responsibility for doing the dishes, as He is an all-knowing, all powerful entity, and there seems to be no philosophical reason for God to not do the dishes.

Part 2/2 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update where a man ask God to take responsibility for doing the dishes, as He is an all-knowing, all powerful entity, and there seems to be no philosophical reason for God to not do the dishes.

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 20d

I believe Buddhists aren't allowed to get mad about this misrepresentation, because that'd be a form of attachment.

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

4 panel SMBC comic update where a monk in an orange robe atop a rock is speaking to 3 other monks wearing red. The monk in orange guides them through the ideas that form is impermanent, that impermanence is unsatisfactory, and that is is improper to regard something impermanent and changing as belonging to someone. One of the monks in red interjects that the monk in orange didn't say any of that yesterday when the monk in red paid for lunch.