2006-01-18
Original: 2006-01-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A dying soldier, lying down and gripping the hand of another soldier, gasps out his last words.
Dying soldier: "Todd, buddy, things are gettin' dark, I want >GHACK< I want you to tell my wife... I would have loved her... forever..."
Todd (off-panel, kneeling beside him): "Would that be Japan wife or Sweden wife?"
Dying soldier (weakly): "Piiiiick... ooooooone..."
Votey:
Close-up of the dying soldier's face as he continues to speak.
Dying soldier: "Tell them... I... liked them..."
A dying soldier, lying down and gripping the hand of another soldier, gasps out his last words.
Dying soldier: "Todd, buddy, things are gettin' dark, I want >GHACK< I want you to tell my wife... I would have loved her... forever..."
Todd (off-panel, kneeling beside him): "Would that be Japan wife or Sweden wife?"
Dying soldier (weakly): "Piiiiick... ooooooone..."
Votey:
Close-up of the dying soldier's face as he continues to speak.
Dying soldier: "Tell them... I... liked them..."
Alt text
A war comic. In a green-and-brown battlefield scene, a wounded soldier lies on the ground clutching the hand of his comrade Todd. The dying man gasps: "Todd, buddy, things are gettin' dark, I want >GHACK< I want you to tell my wife... I would have loved her... forever..." Todd, only his green-sleeved arm and hand visible at the edge of the panel, asks bluntly: "Would that be Japan wife or Sweden wife?" The soldier, faltering, replies: "Piiiiick... ooooooone..." Votey (aftercomic): a sketchy black-and-white close-up of the dying soldier's anguished face as he amends his final message, saying "Tell them... I... liked them..." — downgrading his sentiment from loving forever to merely having liked his two wives.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.