2006-07-05

Main comic: A single panel set in a gloomy chamber. A blue-skinned sorceress with large curved black horns and flame-like orange hair (a Maleficent stand-in) gestures grandly over a casket and proclaims, "And when the princess pricks her finger, she will sleep forever unless a series of unlikely conditions are met!" Beside her, a green goblin-like creature with fangs and claws replies flatly, "Uh, I got a knife? We could just stab her... you wanna just stab her?" The caption below reads: "The original draft of Sleeping Beauty was just over twelve minutes long" — the joke being that the goblin's blunt, efficient solution would skip the entire elaborate fairy-tale curse. Votey: a close-up of the green horned creature's face, now smiling contentedly, saying, "I feel so fulfilled now!"