2009-10-27
Original: 2009-10-27 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A younger man with long brown hair, a beard, and dark sunglasses sits on the ground in ragged green clothes, holding out a tin cup as a beggar. A gray-haired old man wearing suspenders stands over him, dropping a folded bill (and apparently a coin) into the cup.
Old man: "HOW'D YOU LOSE YOUR EYES?"
Blind beggar: "IN THE WAR, OLD TIMER. IN THAT ABSURD WAR."
Old man: "OF COURSE... WHAT A SENSELESS, SENSELESS WAR."
Caption (below panel): "War Against Eyes: 2031-2036 A.D."
Votey:
Title banner: "HOW THE WAR BEGAN..."
A simple line-drawn figure walks toward a doorway/exit.
Figure: "I'M GONNA GO OUTSIDE."
A younger man with long brown hair, a beard, and dark sunglasses sits on the ground in ragged green clothes, holding out a tin cup as a beggar. A gray-haired old man wearing suspenders stands over him, dropping a folded bill (and apparently a coin) into the cup.
Old man: "HOW'D YOU LOSE YOUR EYES?"
Blind beggar: "IN THE WAR, OLD TIMER. IN THAT ABSURD WAR."
Old man: "OF COURSE... WHAT A SENSELESS, SENSELESS WAR."
Caption (below panel): "War Against Eyes: 2031-2036 A.D."
Votey:
Title banner: "HOW THE WAR BEGAN..."
A simple line-drawn figure walks toward a doorway/exit.
Figure: "I'M GONNA GO OUTSIDE."
Alt text
An SMBC comic. In a single panel, a young blind beggar with long hair, a beard, and dark sunglasses sits in ragged green clothes on the ground, holding out a tin cup. A gray-haired old man in suspenders stands over him, dropping money into the cup. The old man asks, "How'd you lose your eyes?" The beggar replies, "In the war, old timer. In that absurd war." The old man says, "Of course... what a senseless, senseless war." A caption beneath reads: "War Against Eyes: 2031-2036 A.D." The votey (bonus panel), titled "How the war began...", shows a simple line drawing of a person walking toward a doorway saying, "I'm gonna go outside." The joke: the grand, senseless "War Against Eyes" was really just people losing their eyesight from going outside into the sun.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.