2007-02-27
Original: 2007-02-27 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with orange/red hair, wide-eyed and open-mouthed, speaks emphatically.
Man: "My client wouldn't hurt anyone! Those women decapitated their own husbands! Also, the judge is a jerk!"
Caption below the panel:
"Poor Legal Strategy #12:
Using your lawyer's head as a puppet."
Votey:
A rougher black-and-white drawing of a man's head (the lawyer, being used as a puppet) grinning.
Man: "Looks like things are HEADED in a bad direction! Ha! Ha! Ha! See, I'm funny! Not guilty!"
A man with orange/red hair, wide-eyed and open-mouthed, speaks emphatically.
Man: "My client wouldn't hurt anyone! Those women decapitated their own husbands! Also, the judge is a jerk!"
Caption below the panel:
"Poor Legal Strategy #12:
Using your lawyer's head as a puppet."
Votey:
A rougher black-and-white drawing of a man's head (the lawyer, being used as a puppet) grinning.
Man: "Looks like things are HEADED in a bad direction! Ha! Ha! Ha! See, I'm funny! Not guilty!"
Alt text
Main comic: A single panel shows a wide-eyed man with orange hair and an open mouth speaking frantically. His speech bubble reads: "My client wouldn't hurt anyone! Those women decapitated their own husbands! Also, the judge is a jerk!" A caption beneath reads: "Poor Legal Strategy #12: Using your lawyer's head as a puppet." The joke is that a defendant is literally operating their lawyer's head like a ventriloquist's puppet, making the lawyer blurt out a terrible, self-incriminating defense. Votey: A crude black-and-white sketch of the lawyer's grinning head says, "Looks like things are HEADED in a bad direction! Ha! Ha! Ha! See, I'm funny! Not guilty!" — leaning into the severed-head pun and the puppet bit.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.