2006-08-16
Original: 2006-08-16 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A gravestone stands in a cemetery under a pink sky with a setting sun. The headstone is inscribed:
"MY LAST
NAME IS
<cough> IS <gurgle>
IS...<dying sounds>"
STEVE ?
1977 - 2006
Votey:
Handwritten text: "This is how graves work."
A gravestone stands in a cemetery under a pink sky with a setting sun. The headstone is inscribed:
"MY LAST
NAME IS
<cough> IS <gurgle>
IS...<dying sounds>"
STEVE ?
1977 - 2006
Votey:
Handwritten text: "This is how graves work."
Alt text
A single-panel comic shows a gravestone in a cemetery under a pink sky with a setting sun on the horizon. The epitaph records the deceased's last, garbled dying words instead of a real name: "MY LAST NAME IS <cough> IS <gurgle> IS...<dying sounds>". Below that is the first name "STEVE" followed by a question mark, and the dates "1977 - 2006" — implying the gravestone literally transcribed the dying man's choking, indistinct final attempt to state his surname. The votey (a small follow-up panel) is handwritten text reading: "This is how graves work."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.