2006-05-01
Original: 2006-05-01 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Single panel:
A man swings a wooden baseball bat at a cat that has just been launched out of a cannon-like device shaped like a small house with a barrel on top. The cat flies through the air with a motion-trail behind it.
Cat: "MEW?"
In the field below, a small distant figure stands near a marker reading "100" (a hundred-yard distance marker).
Caption (below panel): It was nice to finally get a little time away from the parish.
Votey:
Handwritten text on a sketched square sign:
"If the Bible doesn't say no, the answer is yes." (with "yes" underlined for emphasis)
A man swings a wooden baseball bat at a cat that has just been launched out of a cannon-like device shaped like a small house with a barrel on top. The cat flies through the air with a motion-trail behind it.
Cat: "MEW?"
In the field below, a small distant figure stands near a marker reading "100" (a hundred-yard distance marker).
Caption (below panel): It was nice to finally get a little time away from the parish.
Votey:
Handwritten text on a sketched square sign:
"If the Bible doesn't say no, the answer is yes." (with "yes" underlined for emphasis)
Alt text
A single-panel comic set in a field at sunset, purple hills and an orange cloudy sky behind. A man winds up and swings a wooden baseball bat at a cat that is being fired out of a cannon disguised as a little house-shaped launcher with a barrel on top. The cat sails through the air leaving a motion trail and says "MEW?" Far off in the field a tiny figure stands beside a yardage marker reading "100," framing the scene like a home-run derby where cats are the balls. The caption reads: "It was nice to finally get a little time away from the parish." The votey (aftercomic) is a hand-drawn sign with handwritten text reading: "If the Bible doesn't say no, the answer is yes." The word "yes" is underlined. The joke: a clergyman justifies a gleefully cruel pastime by reasoning that anything scripture doesn't explicitly forbid is permitted.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.