2010-09-13
Original: 2010-09-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An offscreen voice (the accuser): I DIDN'T ACT ALONE! NOBODY REALIZED YOU WERE AN ALIEN RACE!
An offscreen voice: YOU KILLED MORE OF US THAN ANY MAN IN HISTORY!
(A red-haired man in a green shirt looks distressed on the right.)
Panel 2:
The red-haired man (pleading): I WORK FROM HOME! THERE'S A LOT OF DOWN TIME!
The accuser: IT'S TOO LATE FOR EXCUSES!
The red-haired man: NOOOO!
Panel 3:
(Wordless. The red-haired man is impaled/struck through the back by a spear- or stinger-like object that comes out through his mouth. Blood sprays.)
Panel 4:
(Wordless. A wide view reveals the attacker is a giant mosquito-like / fly-like alien creature. Its long proboscis is plunged into the slumped, dead red-haired man.)
Votey:
A bald priest in black clerical clothing stands in front of a television/monitor that shows the scene of the alien creature with its proboscis in the man.
Priest: THAT'S WHY.
(A person's silhouetted head listens in the foreground.)
An offscreen voice (the accuser): I DIDN'T ACT ALONE! NOBODY REALIZED YOU WERE AN ALIEN RACE!
An offscreen voice: YOU KILLED MORE OF US THAN ANY MAN IN HISTORY!
(A red-haired man in a green shirt looks distressed on the right.)
Panel 2:
The red-haired man (pleading): I WORK FROM HOME! THERE'S A LOT OF DOWN TIME!
The accuser: IT'S TOO LATE FOR EXCUSES!
The red-haired man: NOOOO!
Panel 3:
(Wordless. The red-haired man is impaled/struck through the back by a spear- or stinger-like object that comes out through his mouth. Blood sprays.)
Panel 4:
(Wordless. A wide view reveals the attacker is a giant mosquito-like / fly-like alien creature. Its long proboscis is plunged into the slumped, dead red-haired man.)
Votey:
A bald priest in black clerical clothing stands in front of a television/monitor that shows the scene of the alien creature with its proboscis in the man.
Priest: THAT'S WHY.
(A person's silhouetted head listens in the foreground.)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic in dark, moody colors. Panels 1-2: a red-haired man in a green shirt is confronted by an offscreen voice that accuses him: "I didn't act alone! Nobody realized you were an alien race! You killed more of us than any man in history!" The man pleads, "I work from home! There's a lot of down time!" The voice replies, "It's too late for excuses!" and the man cries "Noooo!" Panel 3: wordless—a spear-like point bursts through the man's mouth from behind, blood spraying, as he is impaled. Panel 4: a wide shot reveals the attacker is a giant mosquito/fly-like alien creature whose long proboscis is plunged into the now-slumped dead man—the punchline being that the man is a human who has killed countless mosquitoes ("an alien race"), and now a giant one takes revenge. Votey (black-and-white aftercomic): a bald priest stands beside a TV monitor showing that same alien-killing scene; a silhouetted listener is in the foreground. The priest says simply, "That's why," as if explaining some larger lesson with the gruesome footage.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.