2006-11-14
Original: 2006-11-14 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A protest scene in front of a red brick building. Two people stand in the foreground: a smiling blonde person in a brown shirt, and a man with flame-like red hair and a bushy red beard who is raising one fist and holding up a yellow protest sign with his other hand.
Sign held by the red-haired man: "WE WANT CHANGE!"
Smaller signs in the crowd behind them read: "WE WANT [CHANGE]", "[TI]ME FOR [CHANGE]", "CHANGE NOW".
A large crowd of purple-shaded figures fills the background.
Caption (below panel): "Thanks to careful wording of our signs, we managed to convince a number of homeless people to join our protest."
Votey:
A close-up line drawing of a single teardrop with a simple smiling face (two dots for eyes and a curved smile). Hand-lettered text above and beside it reads: "Makin' a difference".
A protest scene in front of a red brick building. Two people stand in the foreground: a smiling blonde person in a brown shirt, and a man with flame-like red hair and a bushy red beard who is raising one fist and holding up a yellow protest sign with his other hand.
Sign held by the red-haired man: "WE WANT CHANGE!"
Smaller signs in the crowd behind them read: "WE WANT [CHANGE]", "[TI]ME FOR [CHANGE]", "CHANGE NOW".
A large crowd of purple-shaded figures fills the background.
Caption (below panel): "Thanks to careful wording of our signs, we managed to convince a number of homeless people to join our protest."
Votey:
A close-up line drawing of a single teardrop with a simple smiling face (two dots for eyes and a curved smile). Hand-lettered text above and beside it reads: "Makin' a difference".
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic. At a street protest in front of a red brick building, a smiling blonde person in a brown shirt stands beside a man with wild red flame-like hair and a big red beard. The red-haired man raises one fist and holds up a bright yellow sign reading "WE WANT CHANGE!" Behind them, a large crowd holds smaller signs reading "WE WANT CHANGE," "TIME FOR CHANGE," and "CHANGE NOW." The caption reads: "Thanks to careful wording of our signs, we managed to convince a number of homeless people to join our protest" — the joke being that the homeless protesters were drawn in by the word "change," hearing it as spare coins rather than political reform. Votey: a small hand-drawn smiling teardrop with the caption "Makin' a difference," a wry play on a tear and on the idea of making change.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.