2010-06-03
Original: 2010-06-03 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A wide nighttime ocean scene with two old sailing ships with white sails on dark blue water.
Panel 2:
Dark-haired bearded man (hands cupped around his mouth, shouting): HAST SEEN THE WHITE WHAAAAAAALE?
Panel 3:
Man with flame-like red hair and red beard, in a maroon coat (waving casually): YES! KILLED HIM!
Panel 4:
Dark-haired man (hands still cupped at mouth): AH, THAT'S TOO BA-WAIT, WHAT?
Panel 5:
Red-haired man (relaxed, gesturing): YEP! I WAS MAD AT IT FOR EATING MY LEG, SO WE SET SAIL LAST WEEK. THEN TODAY, I SAW HIM AND STABBED HIM.
Panel 6:
Dark-haired man (looking concerned): OH... DID... DID IT FEEL GOOD?
Panel 7:
Red-haired man (smiling broadly): YOU KNOW, I WAS WORRIED PURSUING VENGEANCE ON AN UNTHINKING SEABEAST WOULD PROVE MEANINGLESS AND EXISTENTIALLY SHATTERING. BUT HONESTLY? I FEEL GREAT!
Panel 8:
Dark-haired man (uneasy): SO... THERE WASN'T AN ABYSS OF MEANING-
Panel 9:
Red-haired man, now wearing a white whale as a hat, arms thrown wide in celebration: WHALE-HAT PARTY!
Panel 10:
The dark-haired bearded man stands alone in the dark, looking dejected and troubled.
Votey:
A shirtless red-haired figure (the whale, or its spirit, anthropomorphized) bursts up out of the water holding a broken oar in one hand and a pencil-like spar in the other, mouth open in a shout: I LIVE!
Panel 2:
Dark-haired bearded man (hands cupped around his mouth, shouting): HAST SEEN THE WHITE WHAAAAAAALE?
Panel 3:
Man with flame-like red hair and red beard, in a maroon coat (waving casually): YES! KILLED HIM!
Panel 4:
Dark-haired man (hands still cupped at mouth): AH, THAT'S TOO BA-WAIT, WHAT?
Panel 5:
Red-haired man (relaxed, gesturing): YEP! I WAS MAD AT IT FOR EATING MY LEG, SO WE SET SAIL LAST WEEK. THEN TODAY, I SAW HIM AND STABBED HIM.
Panel 6:
Dark-haired man (looking concerned): OH... DID... DID IT FEEL GOOD?
Panel 7:
Red-haired man (smiling broadly): YOU KNOW, I WAS WORRIED PURSUING VENGEANCE ON AN UNTHINKING SEABEAST WOULD PROVE MEANINGLESS AND EXISTENTIALLY SHATTERING. BUT HONESTLY? I FEEL GREAT!
Panel 8:
Dark-haired man (uneasy): SO... THERE WASN'T AN ABYSS OF MEANING-
Panel 9:
Red-haired man, now wearing a white whale as a hat, arms thrown wide in celebration: WHALE-HAT PARTY!
Panel 10:
The dark-haired bearded man stands alone in the dark, looking dejected and troubled.
Votey:
A shirtless red-haired figure (the whale, or its spirit, anthropomorphized) bursts up out of the water holding a broken oar in one hand and a pencil-like spar in the other, mouth open in a shout: I LIVE!
Alt text
A 10-panel SMBC comic parodying Moby-Dick. A nighttime ocean scene shows two old sailing ships. A dark-haired bearded sailor cups his hands and shouts across the water, 'Hast seen the white whaaaaaale?' A cheerful red-haired, red-bearded man in a maroon coat waves and replies, 'Yes! Killed him!' The first man starts, 'Ah, that's too ba-WAIT, WHAT?' The red-haired man casually explains he was mad at the whale for eating his leg, set sail last week, saw it today, and stabbed it. The worried sailor asks, 'Oh... did... did it feel good?' The red-haired man beams and says he'd been worried that pursuing vengeance on an unthinking seabeast would prove meaningless and existentially shattering, but honestly he feels GREAT. As the sailor uneasily begins, 'So... there wasn't an abyss of meaning-' the red-haired man, now wearing the dead white whale on his head like a hat, throws his arms wide and yells, 'WHALE-HAT PARTY!' In the final panel the dark-haired sailor stands alone in the dark looking dejected, his own existential expectations unmet. Votey: a red-haired figure bursts up out of the water clutching a broken oar and a spar, mouth open, shouting 'I LIVE!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.