2004-04-29
Original: 2004-04-29 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man sits slumped on the floor against a wall, having been stabbed in the chest, with blood on his shirt and pooling beneath him. A menacing figure looms in shadow at the left foreground, knife (or claw) raised. The wounded man points toward the attacker and grins.
Wounded man: "SUCKER! MY WIFE JUST LEFT ME! I WAS ALREADY DEAD INSIDE!"
Votey:
A close-up of a woman's face looking unimpressed/concerned, with a small speech bubble.
Woman: "HONEY?"
A man sits slumped on the floor against a wall, having been stabbed in the chest, with blood on his shirt and pooling beneath him. A menacing figure looms in shadow at the left foreground, knife (or claw) raised. The wounded man points toward the attacker and grins.
Wounded man: "SUCKER! MY WIFE JUST LEFT ME! I WAS ALREADY DEAD INSIDE!"
Votey:
A close-up of a woman's face looking unimpressed/concerned, with a small speech bubble.
Woman: "HONEY?"
Alt text
Main comic: A man sits slumped and bleeding on the floor against a wall, having just been stabbed by a shadowy knife-wielding figure looming over him in the foreground. Rather than being afraid, he grins and points at his attacker, gloating in a speech bubble: "Sucker! My wife just left me! I was already dead inside!" The joke is that he treats his emotional devastation as a triumph over the killer. Votey: A close-up of a woman's face, looking skeptical, with a small speech bubble that reads "Honey?" — implying his wife has not actually left him, undercutting his dramatic claim.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.