2006-09-29
Original: 2006-09-29 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A parent figure (an older person with decaying, zombie-like skin and a reaching hand) leans over a young blonde girl tucked into bed, reassuring her.
Parent: "SWEETIE, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS ZOMBIES. YOUR BROTHER JUST MADE THAT UP TO SCARE YOU. NOW, GO BACK TO..."
Parent (interrupting itself, moaning): "BRAINS! BRAAAINS!"
Caption (below panel): "Brains" is the name of the glass eye that'd just fallen out of its socket.
Votey:
A close-up of a gaunt, decaying zombie-like face, drawn in white-on-black. One eye socket is empty/distorted.
Speech bubble: "I was once like you"
A parent figure (an older person with decaying, zombie-like skin and a reaching hand) leans over a young blonde girl tucked into bed, reassuring her.
Parent: "SWEETIE, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS ZOMBIES. YOUR BROTHER JUST MADE THAT UP TO SCARE YOU. NOW, GO BACK TO..."
Parent (interrupting itself, moaning): "BRAINS! BRAAAINS!"
Caption (below panel): "Brains" is the name of the glass eye that'd just fallen out of its socket.
Votey:
A close-up of a gaunt, decaying zombie-like face, drawn in white-on-black. One eye socket is empty/distorted.
Speech bubble: "I was once like you"
Alt text
Main comic, single panel: an older figure with grayish, decaying skin and a long reaching hand leans over a small blonde girl who is tucked into a red blanket in bed. The figure says in a big speech bubble, "Sweetie, there's no such thing as zombies. Your brother just made that up to scare you. Now, go back to..." Then a second smaller bubble interrupts with "Brains! Braaains!" A caption below the panel reads: "'Brains' is the name of the glass eye that'd just fallen out of its socket." The joke: the parent appears to moan for brains like a zombie, but is supposedly just calling out the name of its dislodged glass eye, undercutting (or confirming) the reassurance. Votey (aftercomic): a stark white-on-black close-up of a gaunt, decaying, zombie-like face with a damaged eye, with a small speech bubble reading "I was once like you."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.