2005-04-17
Original: 2005-04-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A detective in a brown coat and fedora sits at a table in a dimly lit room. On the table is a handwritten note that reads: "YOU GUYS DID IT." In front of him stands a dark, featureless silhouette of a figure backlit against a window. A potted dead/bare twig sits in the corner.
Narration (caption below panel): "Be strong," muttered the detective, "don't fall for his head games."
Votey:
Close-up of the detective's face.
Detective (thought/speech): "DIABOLICAL"
A detective in a brown coat and fedora sits at a table in a dimly lit room. On the table is a handwritten note that reads: "YOU GUYS DID IT." In front of him stands a dark, featureless silhouette of a figure backlit against a window. A potted dead/bare twig sits in the corner.
Narration (caption below panel): "Be strong," muttered the detective, "don't fall for his head games."
Votey:
Close-up of the detective's face.
Detective (thought/speech): "DIABOLICAL"
Alt text
A film-noir style comic. In a dim purple-lit room, a detective in a brown trenchcoat and fedora sits at a table, his hand to his chin. On the table is a small handwritten note reading 'YOU GUYS DID IT.' Looming over the table is a solid black silhouette of a figure standing in front of a yellow-lit window; a bare twig in a pot sits nearby. The caption reads: 'Be strong,' muttered the detective, 'don't fall for his head games.' The joke: the note is an obvious, plainly-written confession naming the culprits, yet the detective treats the silhouetted suspect as a master manipulator playing mind games. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the detective's face shows him gazing off with a single-word speech bubble: 'DIABOLICAL' — he's awestruck by what is actually a straightforward accusation.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.