2008-05-26
Original: 2008-05-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bald, muscular man in denim overalls stands in a dim basement-like room, holding a knife in one hand and a meat tenderizer (or mallet) in the other. He has a small "XX" mark on his chest. He addresses a bound victim tied to a wooden table or sawhorse in front of him (a person with reddish-brown hair, restrained with ropes).
Man: SO, WHAT'LL GET A BETTER ANGLE... 12 INCHES STAINLESS STEEL, OR 14 INCHES CERAMIC?
Bound victim: NOOOOOOOO!
Caption (below panel): I hate word problems.
Votey:
The same bound victim, drawn in a sketchy black-and-white style, looks resigned/annoyed.
Victim: UGH. I GIVE UP. WHAT IS IT?
A bald, muscular man in denim overalls stands in a dim basement-like room, holding a knife in one hand and a meat tenderizer (or mallet) in the other. He has a small "XX" mark on his chest. He addresses a bound victim tied to a wooden table or sawhorse in front of him (a person with reddish-brown hair, restrained with ropes).
Man: SO, WHAT'LL GET A BETTER ANGLE... 12 INCHES STAINLESS STEEL, OR 14 INCHES CERAMIC?
Bound victim: NOOOOOOOO!
Caption (below panel): I hate word problems.
Votey:
The same bound victim, drawn in a sketchy black-and-white style, looks resigned/annoyed.
Victim: UGH. I GIVE UP. WHAT IS IT?
Alt text
A bald, muscular man in denim overalls stands in a dim room holding a knife and a mallet, a small 'XX' tattoo on his chest. A person with reddish-brown hair is tied down to a wooden surface in front of him. The man asks, 'So, what'll get a better angle... 12 inches stainless steel, or 14 inches ceramic?' The bound victim screams 'Noooooooo!' A caption below reads: 'I hate word problems.' The joke: what looks like a torture scene is actually the captor posing a math-style word problem, which the victim dreads more than the threat itself. Votey (aftercomic), sketched in black and white: the bound victim, now looking resigned, says, 'Ugh. I give up. What is it?'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.