2008-12-04
Original: 2008-12-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (text written on an aged parchment/diary page, with a red candle bearing a pentagram beside it):
December 4, 1208
HA! Let the fools try to hang me! Won't they be surprised when I cast my anti-gravity spell?!
Panel 2 (no dialogue): A medieval village scene. A crowd of townspeople watches as a figure (the witch) hangs from a gallows, suspended high in the air above the gallows beam — having floated up rather than dropped down.
Votey:
A woman (off to the side): MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE MADE THE GALLOWS AND THE WITCH PROPORTIONATE.
The witch (a man, hanging/dangling): DON'T TRY TO CHANGE ME
December 4, 1208
HA! Let the fools try to hang me! Won't they be surprised when I cast my anti-gravity spell?!
Panel 2 (no dialogue): A medieval village scene. A crowd of townspeople watches as a figure (the witch) hangs from a gallows, suspended high in the air above the gallows beam — having floated up rather than dropped down.
Votey:
A woman (off to the side): MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE MADE THE GALLOWS AND THE WITCH PROPORTIONATE.
The witch (a man, hanging/dangling): DON'T TRY TO CHANGE ME
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1 shows an aged parchment diary page next to a red candle marked with a pentagram. The handwritten entry reads: 'December 4, 1208. HA! Let the fools try to hang me! Won't they be surprised when I cast my anti-gravity spell?!' Panel 2 shows a medieval village square where a crowd of townspeople watches a hooded witch dangling from a gallows. Instead of dropping to his death, the anti-gravity spell has worked too well: the witch floats high up above the gallows beam, comically suspended at the very top of his rope. Votey: a woman points out, 'Maybe you should have made the gallows and the witch proportionate.' The floating witch retorts defensively, 'Don't try to change me.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.