2010-09-04
Original: 2010-09-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man with a mustache reads a piece of paper.
Man: What's this?
Panel 2: He holds up a small piece of wood.
Man: It's just a piece of wood...
Panel 3: He examines the wood closely. A face is visible in the grain.
Man: Oh my God! Jesus' face is in this wood!
Panel 4: He puts on glasses and peers harder at the wood, where a smaller figure appears.
Man: Oh my God! On Jesus' nose on this piece of wood is the Virgin Mary!
Panel 5: He uses a magnifying glass to look at the wood, where a crucifix shape appears.
Man: Oh my God! On the Virgin Mary on Jesus' nose on this piece of wood is a crucifix!
Panel 6: He uses a microscope-like tube to examine the wood, where another tiny face appears.
Man: Oh my God! On the crucifix on the Virgin Mary on Jesus' nose on this piece of wood there's Pope Clement VIII!
Panel 7 (banner): EARLIER...
A red-haired man speaks to a dark-haired woman in a dim room.
Red-haired man: Tomorrow is voting day. I need a way to distract 10 million fundamentalists for 16 hours.
Woman: Hmm...
Votey:
Banner: 400 LAYERS DOWN
A man peers into a microscope/viewer.
Man: Is that... Zach Weiner's ass?
Man: What's this?
Panel 2: He holds up a small piece of wood.
Man: It's just a piece of wood...
Panel 3: He examines the wood closely. A face is visible in the grain.
Man: Oh my God! Jesus' face is in this wood!
Panel 4: He puts on glasses and peers harder at the wood, where a smaller figure appears.
Man: Oh my God! On Jesus' nose on this piece of wood is the Virgin Mary!
Panel 5: He uses a magnifying glass to look at the wood, where a crucifix shape appears.
Man: Oh my God! On the Virgin Mary on Jesus' nose on this piece of wood is a crucifix!
Panel 6: He uses a microscope-like tube to examine the wood, where another tiny face appears.
Man: Oh my God! On the crucifix on the Virgin Mary on Jesus' nose on this piece of wood there's Pope Clement VIII!
Panel 7 (banner): EARLIER...
A red-haired man speaks to a dark-haired woman in a dim room.
Red-haired man: Tomorrow is voting day. I need a way to distract 10 million fundamentalists for 16 hours.
Woman: Hmm...
Votey:
Banner: 400 LAYERS DOWN
A man peers into a microscope/viewer.
Man: Is that... Zach Weiner's ass?
Alt text
A seven-panel comic. A mustached man reads a note, then holds up a small piece of wood, saying it's just a piece of wood. Looking closer he exclaims he sees Jesus' face in the wood. Each subsequent panel he uses a stronger tool (glasses, magnifying glass, microscope) and finds another religious image nested on the previous one: the Virgin Mary on Jesus' nose, then a crucifix on the Virgin Mary, then Pope Clement VIII on the crucifix, each discovery announced with an increasingly long 'Oh my God!' chain. A final 'EARLIER...' panel reveals the setup: a red-haired man tells a woman, 'Tomorrow is voting day. I need a way to distract 10 million fundamentalists for 16 hours,' as she says 'Hmm...' Votey: titled '400 LAYERS DOWN,' a man at a microscope says, 'Is that... Zach Weiner's ass?'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.