2007-10-30
Original: 2007-10-30 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A young boy with red/orange hair, wearing a blue shirt, stands looking up at a vast black starry sky, holding a knife in his hand.
Panel 2: The starry night sky. A small white rocket/spacecraft sits at the bottom, silhouetted, appearing to be launching or standing on a launchpad.
Panel 3: The red-haired boy gazes upward dreamily against a green background, one hand outstretched.
Boy: SOMEDAY...
Panel 4 (caption: HALF AN HOUR AGO...): A child's bedroom at night. Model planets and a moon hang from the ceiling on strings (including a textured planet, a small ringed planet visible through the window). The bed has a star pattern on the blanket. The red-haired boy sits on the floor smiling, reading a pink book titled "SPACE HARLOTS IV".
Votey:
A close-up of the red-haired boy looking down at his book with a contented smile.
Boy: So much better than Space Harlots III
Panel 2: The starry night sky. A small white rocket/spacecraft sits at the bottom, silhouetted, appearing to be launching or standing on a launchpad.
Panel 3: The red-haired boy gazes upward dreamily against a green background, one hand outstretched.
Boy: SOMEDAY...
Panel 4 (caption: HALF AN HOUR AGO...): A child's bedroom at night. Model planets and a moon hang from the ceiling on strings (including a textured planet, a small ringed planet visible through the window). The bed has a star pattern on the blanket. The red-haired boy sits on the floor smiling, reading a pink book titled "SPACE HARLOTS IV".
Votey:
A close-up of the red-haired boy looking down at his book with a contented smile.
Boy: So much better than Space Harlots III
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: a red-haired boy in a blue shirt stares up into a black starry sky, clutching a knife. Panel 2: the starry sky with a small white rocket silhouetted at the bottom. Panel 3: the boy gazes upward against a green background, hand outstretched, saying "Someday..." Panel 4, captioned "Half an hour ago...", reveals the real scene: a child's bedroom at night with model planets dangling from the ceiling, a star-patterned bed, and the boy sitting on the floor grinning as he reads a pink book titled "Space Harlots IV." The joke: his soaring, knife-clutching cosmic ambition was really just him getting fired up reading trashy space pulp. Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the boy smiling down at the book, thinking "So much better than Space Harlots III."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.