2007-03-12
Original: 2007-03-12 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title caption: AT THE JUSTICE LEAGUE TRYOUTS...
Panel 1:
Batman (standing at a desk across from an angry, shouting bald man): YOUR POWER IS THAT PEOPLE WHO LOOK AT YOU SEE THEIR OWN GRANDFATHER? LOOK, I BECAME BATMAN TO STRIKE FEAR INTO THE HEARTS OF CRIMINALS. I DIDN'T BECOME GRAMPAMAN BECAUSE NOBODY-
Panel 2:
(No dialogue. The bald applicant throws open his coat/jacket to reveal his bare torso.)
Panel 3:
Batman (now wide-eyed and unsettled, looking down): SIGN HERE PLEASE.
Votey:
A man (Superman) recoils in horror, sweating, eyes wide: OH GOD! THIS IS WORSE THAN KRYPTONITE
Panel 1:
Batman (standing at a desk across from an angry, shouting bald man): YOUR POWER IS THAT PEOPLE WHO LOOK AT YOU SEE THEIR OWN GRANDFATHER? LOOK, I BECAME BATMAN TO STRIKE FEAR INTO THE HEARTS OF CRIMINALS. I DIDN'T BECOME GRAMPAMAN BECAUSE NOBODY-
Panel 2:
(No dialogue. The bald applicant throws open his coat/jacket to reveal his bare torso.)
Panel 3:
Batman (now wide-eyed and unsettled, looking down): SIGN HERE PLEASE.
Votey:
A man (Superman) recoils in horror, sweating, eyes wide: OH GOD! THIS IS WORSE THAN KRYPTONITE
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic titled "At the Justice League tryouts..." In panel one, Batman stands at a desk across from a furious, shouting bald man. Batman says: "Your power is that people who look at you see their own grandfather? Look, I became Batman to strike fear into the hearts of criminals. I didn't become Grampaman because nobody-". In panel two, the bald applicant dramatically throws open his coat to reveal his bare, saggy old-man torso. In panel three, a now wide-eyed, visibly disturbed Batman looks down and says flatly: "Sign here please." The joke: the sight of the grandfatherly body is so disturbing it instantly wins Batman over. Votey aftercomic: Superman recoils in sweating, wide-eyed horror at the same sight, shouting "Oh God! This is worse than Kryptonite."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.