2009-12-05
Original: 2009-12-05 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A figure in a Batman costume crouches on a steep rooftop, one arm flung out dramatically.
Batman-costumed man: "BAT-ROPE!"
Panel 2: The same man, indoors, smiling and holding up a grappling-hook device, standing beside an older balding man with a mustache who looks unimpressed.
Batman-costumed man: "MAN, THIS WORKS GREAT. I WONDER IF WE COULD USE IT TO FIGHT CRIME."
Panel 3 (caption banner): "EARLIER..."
A red-haired woman in a yellow shirt sits across a table from the man, who is now wearing the Batman costume and holding the grappling device.
Woman: "SO, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP."
The joke: the "bat-rope" grappling hook was actually deployed as an escape device to flee a relationship conversation.
Votey:
Header (in a hand-drawn box): "ALSO HANDY"
A spray bottle is drawn with a label reading: "PATERNITY REPELLANT"
Batman-costumed man: "BAT-ROPE!"
Panel 2: The same man, indoors, smiling and holding up a grappling-hook device, standing beside an older balding man with a mustache who looks unimpressed.
Batman-costumed man: "MAN, THIS WORKS GREAT. I WONDER IF WE COULD USE IT TO FIGHT CRIME."
Panel 3 (caption banner): "EARLIER..."
A red-haired woman in a yellow shirt sits across a table from the man, who is now wearing the Batman costume and holding the grappling device.
Woman: "SO, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP."
The joke: the "bat-rope" grappling hook was actually deployed as an escape device to flee a relationship conversation.
Votey:
Header (in a hand-drawn box): "ALSO HANDY"
A spray bottle is drawn with a label reading: "PATERNITY REPELLANT"
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic plus a votey. Panel 1: a man in a Batman costume crouches dramatically on a steep rooftop, arm outstretched, shouting "BAT-ROPE!" Panel 2: the same man, now indoors, grins while holding up a grappling-hook gadget next to an unimpressed older mustached man; he says "Man, this works great. I wonder if we could use it to fight crime." Panel 3 is labeled "EARLIER..." and shows the man in the Batman costume, holding the grappling device, sitting across a table from a worried red-haired woman who says "So, we need to talk about our relationship." The joke is that the bat-grappling-hook was actually used to escape a relationship talk, not to fight crime. Votey: a hand-drawn spray bottle under the header "ALSO HANDY," labeled "PATERNITY REPELLANT."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.