2009-07-10
Original: 2009-07-10 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title (top banner): FIXING YOUR LYCANTHROPY: 3 APPROACHES
Panel 1 (banner label): NORMAL PERSON
A dark, dimly-lit room. A human silhouette stands against the wall in shadow. On a table in the foreground, a folded note/card reads:
Note: "I'm sorry."
Panel 2 (banner label): DOCTOR
A person with reddish hair lies strapped down on a hospital gurney/bed with restraints around their chest, wrists, and legs. A heart-rate monitor beeps beside them, and two IV bags hang on stands.
Panel 3 (banner label): ENGINEER
A person with curly reddish hair and glasses, looking determined and tense, operates some kind of launcher/cannon device. In the upper right, a small object has been fired into the air and explodes in a red starburst:
Explosion: "BOOM!"
Votey:
(banner label): LAWYER
A smiling man in a collared shirt speaks confidently.
Man: "I DON'T SEE WHY THIS IS A PROBLEM.*"
Footnote at bottom: "*AUTHOR'S NOTE: BAM!"
Panel 1 (banner label): NORMAL PERSON
A dark, dimly-lit room. A human silhouette stands against the wall in shadow. On a table in the foreground, a folded note/card reads:
Note: "I'm sorry."
Panel 2 (banner label): DOCTOR
A person with reddish hair lies strapped down on a hospital gurney/bed with restraints around their chest, wrists, and legs. A heart-rate monitor beeps beside them, and two IV bags hang on stands.
Panel 3 (banner label): ENGINEER
A person with curly reddish hair and glasses, looking determined and tense, operates some kind of launcher/cannon device. In the upper right, a small object has been fired into the air and explodes in a red starburst:
Explosion: "BOOM!"
Votey:
(banner label): LAWYER
A smiling man in a collared shirt speaks confidently.
Man: "I DON'T SEE WHY THIS IS A PROBLEM.*"
Footnote at bottom: "*AUTHOR'S NOTE: BAM!"
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic titled "FIXING YOUR LYCANTHROPY: 3 APPROACHES," each panel labeled with a profession's approach to curing a werewolf. Panel 1, "NORMAL PERSON": a dark room where a human silhouette stands in shadow against the wall, while a folded note on a table in front reads "I'm sorry." — implying they simply gave up or fled. Panel 2, "DOCTOR": a red-haired patient lies strapped down to a hospital gurney with restraints, hooked up to a beeping heart monitor and IV bags — a clinical containment approach. Panel 3, "ENGINEER": a determined, glasses-wearing person fires a launcher device, blasting a projectile that explodes in a red starburst reading "BOOM!" — solving it with explosives. The votey aftercomic adds a fourth approach, "LAWYER": a confident smiling man saying "I DON'T SEE WHY THIS IS A PROBLEM.*" with a footnote at the bottom reading "*AUTHOR'S NOTE: BAM!" — the joke being the lawyer dismisses the lycanthropy as no problem, punctuated by a triumphant authorial "BAM!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.