2008-11-05
Original: 2008-11-05 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title: THE ENGINEER'S NIGHTMARE
Panel 1: A bald man with glasses holding a clipboard speaks to a younger man (the engineer).
Bald man: "WE WANT YOU TO BUILD A MACHINE TO VIOLENTLY KILL YOUR FAMILY."
Engineer: "UH... NO."
Panel 2: The same bald man (seen from behind) continues addressing the engineer, who stands looking uneasy.
Bald man: "WE'D LIKE IT TO LOOK LIKE MEGATRON FROM TRANSFORMERS."
Bottom: A large arched close-up of the engineer's face, distressed and sweating, with motion lines around his head conveying anguish.
Votey:
Caption: "SOON..."
The engineer, now grinning with a slightly unhinged expression, holds his fists up in front of him.
The engineer: "PEW! PEW! PEW!"
Panel 1: A bald man with glasses holding a clipboard speaks to a younger man (the engineer).
Bald man: "WE WANT YOU TO BUILD A MACHINE TO VIOLENTLY KILL YOUR FAMILY."
Engineer: "UH... NO."
Panel 2: The same bald man (seen from behind) continues addressing the engineer, who stands looking uneasy.
Bald man: "WE'D LIKE IT TO LOOK LIKE MEGATRON FROM TRANSFORMERS."
Bottom: A large arched close-up of the engineer's face, distressed and sweating, with motion lines around his head conveying anguish.
Votey:
Caption: "SOON..."
The engineer, now grinning with a slightly unhinged expression, holds his fists up in front of him.
The engineer: "PEW! PEW! PEW!"
Alt text
Title: "The Engineer's Nightmare." Panel 1: a bald, bespectacled man holding a clipboard tells a younger engineer, "We want you to build a machine to violently kill your family." The engineer replies, "Uh... no." Panel 2: the same man adds, "We'd like it to look like Megatron from Transformers," while the engineer stands looking distressed. A large arched close-up at the bottom shows the engineer's face sweating and anguished. In the votey aftercomic, captioned "Soon...," the engineer grins with an unhinged look and holds up his fists, going "Pew! Pew! Pew!" — implying he gave in and is now gleefully play-acting with his deadly Megatron machine.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.