2010-11-27
Original: 2010-11-27 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A young man with reddish-brown hair sits up in bed, hands clasped to his face in prayer.
Man: "Dear Lord, I'm a comedian. Please let me die in a humorous way."
A large yellow arrow points downward to the next panel. A red banner reads: "50 YEARS LATER"
Panel 2: The same man, now very old and bald with white hair, lies frail in a hospital-style bed.
Panel 3: Close-up of the old man's face, looking distressed.
Old man: "Where's my son?"
Panel 4: A woman (a nurse or doctor, dark-skinned, holding a clipboard/chart) speaks gently to him; the old man's profile is visible at the right edge.
Woman: "He was flying in to see you before you died... but his plane crashed."
Panel 5: Extreme close-up of the old man's grief-stricken, tearful face. Silent.
Panel 6: A view of the sky with clouds. Several winged angels stand on the clouds. A large glowing yellow oval/orb (the divine presence) floats in the sky, laughing.
God (from the orb): "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Votey:
Top banner: "SOON..."
A rough, sketchy black-and-white panel showing a dark spiky shape (the divine orb/God) crashing or exploding through a room.
Sound effect: "BOOM!!"
Man: "Dear Lord, I'm a comedian. Please let me die in a humorous way."
A large yellow arrow points downward to the next panel. A red banner reads: "50 YEARS LATER"
Panel 2: The same man, now very old and bald with white hair, lies frail in a hospital-style bed.
Panel 3: Close-up of the old man's face, looking distressed.
Old man: "Where's my son?"
Panel 4: A woman (a nurse or doctor, dark-skinned, holding a clipboard/chart) speaks gently to him; the old man's profile is visible at the right edge.
Woman: "He was flying in to see you before you died... but his plane crashed."
Panel 5: Extreme close-up of the old man's grief-stricken, tearful face. Silent.
Panel 6: A view of the sky with clouds. Several winged angels stand on the clouds. A large glowing yellow oval/orb (the divine presence) floats in the sky, laughing.
God (from the orb): "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Votey:
Top banner: "SOON..."
A rough, sketchy black-and-white panel showing a dark spiky shape (the divine orb/God) crashing or exploding through a room.
Sound effect: "BOOM!!"
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a young red-haired man prays with hands to his face, saying "Dear Lord, I'm a comedian. Please let me die in a humorous way." A red banner with a yellow arrow reads "50 YEARS LATER." Panel 2: the man is now an old, bald, frail figure lying in a hospital bed. Panel 3: close-up, he asks "Where's my son?" Panel 4: a dark-skinned nurse with a clipboard answers gently, "He was flying in to see you before you died... but his plane crashed." Panel 5: extreme close-up of the old man's grief-stricken, tearful face. Panel 6: clouds and angels in the sky around a glowing yellow orb (God), which is howling "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" The joke: God granted the comedian's prayer for a humorous death by killing his son in a plane crash, then laughing. Votey (aftercomic): a rough sketch panel labeled "SOON..." shows the dark spiky divine orb crashing through a room with a "BOOM!!" sound effect, implying karmic payback is coming for God.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.