2005-04-28
Original: 2005-04-28 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A young man with orange/red hair, wearing a yellow shirt, stands in a room pointing back over his shoulder with his thumb. A second person peeks out from behind a doorframe in the background.
Man (large speech bubble at top): "8... 9... 10... READY OR NOT, HERE I COME!"
Person peeking from doorway (small bubble): "WAIT..."
Man (lower bubble): "WAS I SUPPOSED TO TAG THEM OUT, OR STAB THEM TO DEATH?"
Caption below panel: "A very strange turn was about to befall our game of Hide and Stab."
Votey:
Close-up of a worried/grimacing face.
Face: "IF YOU'RE JUST GONNA TAG, WHAT'S THE POINT?"
A young man with orange/red hair, wearing a yellow shirt, stands in a room pointing back over his shoulder with his thumb. A second person peeks out from behind a doorframe in the background.
Man (large speech bubble at top): "8... 9... 10... READY OR NOT, HERE I COME!"
Person peeking from doorway (small bubble): "WAIT..."
Man (lower bubble): "WAS I SUPPOSED TO TAG THEM OUT, OR STAB THEM TO DEATH?"
Caption below panel: "A very strange turn was about to befall our game of Hide and Stab."
Votey:
Close-up of a worried/grimacing face.
Face: "IF YOU'RE JUST GONNA TAG, WHAT'S THE POINT?"
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic. A young man with red hair in a yellow shirt stands pointing his thumb over his shoulder, while another person nervously peeks out from behind a doorway behind him. The man shouts a big speech bubble: "8... 9... 10... Ready or not, here I come!" The hiding person says "Wait..." and the man continues, casually, "Was I supposed to tag them out, or stab them to death?" A caption under the panel reads: "A very strange turn was about to befall our game of Hide and Stab." The joke reframes hide-and-seek as a lethal game where stabbing is an expected option. Votey: a close-up of a worried, grimacing face saying, "If you're just gonna tag, what's the point?" — implying the murderous interpretation is the more satisfying one.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.