2008-03-17
Original: 2008-03-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title caption (yellow banner): CHESS TIPS: UNNERVE YOUR OPPONENT BY PUTTING HIM AT EASE
Panel: Two men sit across a chessboard from each other. A balding older man in a red shirt, on the left, gestures and speaks to a man with brown hair and glasses, seen from behind on the right.
Older man in red shirt: "I want you to know - when I move my queenside rook to C7? That's not a sex thing."
Votey:
Hand-drawn sketch of the older man's face in profile, looking intently. Caption above: "Look in my eyes"
Panel: Two men sit across a chessboard from each other. A balding older man in a red shirt, on the left, gestures and speaks to a man with brown hair and glasses, seen from behind on the right.
Older man in red shirt: "I want you to know - when I move my queenside rook to C7? That's not a sex thing."
Votey:
Hand-drawn sketch of the older man's face in profile, looking intently. Caption above: "Look in my eyes"
Alt text
An SMBC comic. A yellow title banner reads: "CHESS TIPS: UNNERVE YOUR OPPONENT BY PUTTING HIM AT EASE." In the single panel, two men sit at a chessboard. A balding older man in a red shirt leans toward his opponent (a brown-haired man in glasses, seen from behind) and earnestly says: "I want you to know - when I move my queenside rook to C7? That's not a sex thing." The joke: reassuring your opponent it isn't sexual only makes the chess move deeply unsettling. Votey (aftercomic): a loose hand-drawn close-up of the older man's intense face in profile with the caption "Look in my eyes," doubling down on the creepy sincerity.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.