2006-12-09
Original: 2006-12-09 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with brown hair is screaming, his body wracked, against a bright green background with jagged red shock-burst shapes around him.
Man: AAAAAAH!
Panel 2:
Label in upper-left corner: EARLIER...
A green genie with pointed ears, a turban-like headpiece, and a wispy tail emerges, arms crossed. A man's head (the brown-haired man from panel 1) is in the foreground looking up at the genie.
Genie: I wish that... just once... YOU could have YOUR wish.
Votey:
A woman holds up a lockpick / tension wrench in front of a door.
Woman: HEY, I PICKED THE LOCK ON THE DOOR!
A second speech bubble (the door/lock): STOP IT!
A man with brown hair is screaming, his body wracked, against a bright green background with jagged red shock-burst shapes around him.
Man: AAAAAAH!
Panel 2:
Label in upper-left corner: EARLIER...
A green genie with pointed ears, a turban-like headpiece, and a wispy tail emerges, arms crossed. A man's head (the brown-haired man from panel 1) is in the foreground looking up at the genie.
Genie: I wish that... just once... YOU could have YOUR wish.
Votey:
A woman holds up a lockpick / tension wrench in front of a door.
Woman: HEY, I PICKED THE LOCK ON THE DOOR!
A second speech bubble (the door/lock): STOP IT!
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Panel 1: a brown-haired man screams 'AAAAAAH!' in agony, his body convulsing against a vivid green background ringed with jagged red explosion bursts. Panel 2, labeled 'EARLIER...': a green genie with crossed arms and a wispy tail looms over the same man, saying 'I wish that... just once... YOU could have YOUR wish.' The joke: the genie has wished the man's own wish back onto him, with the screaming first panel implying the result was horrific. Votey: a woman proudly holds up a lockpick and says 'HEY, I PICKED THE LOCK ON THE DOOR!' and the door (or lock) replies 'STOP IT!', personifying the lock as a victim being violated.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.