2007-04-21
Original: 2007-04-21 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An older woman (Janet) stands beside a younger red-haired woman (Allison) at a cemetery, looking toward a small gravestone.
Janet: "Allison, I was always sorry you never had more than a piece of granite for a father."
Panel 2:
A wider view reveals the "gravestone" is actually a man whose head and torso are a slab of granite, wearing a collared shirt. The two women stand to the left, the older woman holding what looks like a piece of stone.
Granite man: "That's racist, Janet."
Votey:
A man speaks to a figure whose head and arm are made of stone.
Man: "Sorry, Rocky."
Stone figure: "You take that back!"
An older woman (Janet) stands beside a younger red-haired woman (Allison) at a cemetery, looking toward a small gravestone.
Janet: "Allison, I was always sorry you never had more than a piece of granite for a father."
Panel 2:
A wider view reveals the "gravestone" is actually a man whose head and torso are a slab of granite, wearing a collared shirt. The two women stand to the left, the older woman holding what looks like a piece of stone.
Granite man: "That's racist, Janet."
Votey:
A man speaks to a figure whose head and arm are made of stone.
Man: "Sorry, Rocky."
Stone figure: "You take that back!"
Alt text
A two-panel comic set in a cemetery. Panel 1: an older woman in glasses stands with a younger red-haired woman, gazing toward what appears to be a small gravestone. The older woman says, "Allison, I was always sorry you never had more than a piece of granite for a father." Panel 2: the camera pulls back to reveal the "gravestone" is actually a person whose head and upper body are a slab of granite, dressed in a collared shirt. He replies, "That's racist, Janet." The joke: the offhand pity about being a "piece of granite" lands as a slur against an actual living granite-bodied person. Votey (small aftercomic, rough black-and-white sketch): a man gestures to a figure with a stone head and arm and says, "Sorry, Rocky." The stone figure snaps back, "You take that back!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.