2006-12-27
Original: 2006-12-27 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (title banner): SMBC PRESENTS: HEADLINES FROM THE DAY YOU DIE
Panel 2 (a newspaper): WORLD'S GREATEST LEADER DIES PEACEFULLY IN SLEEP
Caption below the comic: Oh, sorry. Skip to page V-45 for the picture of the four-hundred pound corpse clutching a stack of Playboys and Archie Comics.
Before you committed suicide, you killed him for stealing your girlfriend.
Votey: Also, you died when there were still newspapers.
Panel 2 (a newspaper): WORLD'S GREATEST LEADER DIES PEACEFULLY IN SLEEP
Caption below the comic: Oh, sorry. Skip to page V-45 for the picture of the four-hundred pound corpse clutching a stack of Playboys and Archie Comics.
Before you committed suicide, you killed him for stealing your girlfriend.
Votey: Also, you died when there were still newspapers.
Alt text
Titled 'SMBC PRESENTS: HEADLINES FROM THE DAY YOU DIE.' A panel shows a newspaper with the headline 'WORLD'S GREATEST LEADER DIES PEACEFULLY IN SLEEP.' Caption below reads: 'Oh, sorry. Skip to page V-45 for the picture of the four-hundred pound corpse clutching a stack of Playboys and Archie Comics. Before you committed suicide, you killed him for stealing your girlfriend.' The joke: the noble-sounding headline is quickly undercut by a sordid, pathetic reality about the reader's own death. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-drawn note reading 'Also, you died when there were still newspapers,' adding that the whole premise is dated.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.