2009-12-13
Original: 2009-12-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A crowd of people stands together, looking grim and unsettled. A large speech bubble rising from somewhere among them reads:
Voice (offscreen / among the crowd): "PINOCCHIO WITH HIS NOSE ATTACHED TO THE TRIGGER OF A RIFLE, WHICH POINTS AT HIS FACE AS HE SAYS 'I WANT TO LIVE!'"
Caption (below panel): The "Most Horrific Image" contest came to an early conclusion.
Votey:
A crudely drawn Pinocchio with a long nose, looking dismayed, with an X-shaped wound or mark on his forehead. His thought bubble reads:
Pinocchio (thinking): "THIS SUCKS."
A crowd of people stands together, looking grim and unsettled. A large speech bubble rising from somewhere among them reads:
Voice (offscreen / among the crowd): "PINOCCHIO WITH HIS NOSE ATTACHED TO THE TRIGGER OF A RIFLE, WHICH POINTS AT HIS FACE AS HE SAYS 'I WANT TO LIVE!'"
Caption (below panel): The "Most Horrific Image" contest came to an early conclusion.
Votey:
A crudely drawn Pinocchio with a long nose, looking dismayed, with an X-shaped wound or mark on his forehead. His thought bubble reads:
Pinocchio (thinking): "THIS SUCKS."
Alt text
Main comic: A single panel shows a tight crowd of people, all looking grim, worried, and a little nauseated. A large speech bubble coming from among them describes an image: "Pinocchio with his nose attached to the trigger of a rifle, which points at his face as he says 'I want to live!'" A caption underneath reads: The "Most Horrific Image" contest came to an early conclusion. The joke is that merely describing this verbal image is enough to win, since the audience's faces show they are all imagining the gruesome scene. Votey: A crude doodle of Pinocchio with a long nose and an X mark on his forehead, looking defeated, thinking "This sucks" — depicting the very paradox just described, where lying-to-live and telling-the-truth both end badly for him.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.