2008-05-04
Original: 2008-05-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Left sidebar caption (yellow panel):
FROM THE ARCHIVE:
FEBRUARY 10, 1919
SMBC GOES POLITICAL!
Main panel:
A giant green monster looms over a city.
Man in the background (gesturing, alarmed): AGH! ANOTHER GIANT WASP ATTACK!
Man with pox-covered skin (calm, dismissive): I DON'T CARE! I'VE GOT THAT NEW STRAIN OF ULTRA-SMALLPOX!
Bottom banner / poster: VOTE NO ON WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
Votey:
Handwritten text on a sign/placard:
Gentlemen! Shall it go thus?
FROM THE ARCHIVE:
FEBRUARY 10, 1919
SMBC GOES POLITICAL!
Main panel:
A giant green monster looms over a city.
Man in the background (gesturing, alarmed): AGH! ANOTHER GIANT WASP ATTACK!
Man with pox-covered skin (calm, dismissive): I DON'T CARE! I'VE GOT THAT NEW STRAIN OF ULTRA-SMALLPOX!
Bottom banner / poster: VOTE NO ON WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
Votey:
Handwritten text on a sign/placard:
Gentlemen! Shall it go thus?
Alt text
A retro-styled SMBC comic. A yellow left sidebar reads "FROM THE ARCHIVE: FEBRUARY 10, 1919 — SMBC GOES POLITICAL!" The main panel shows a dark city scene with a giant green monster looming overhead. One man in the background throws up his arms shouting "AGH! ANOTHER GIANT WASP ATTACK!" Beside him, a man whose skin is covered in red pox sores replies indifferently, "I DON'T CARE! I'VE GOT THAT NEW STRAIN OF ULTRA-SMALLPOX!" A poster across the bottom reads "VOTE NO ON WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE" — the joke being an absurd anti-suffrage propaganda piece warning of monsters and plagues. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-drawn sign reading "Gentlemen! Shall it go thus?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.