2010-12-23
Original: 2010-12-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
[The main comic is wordless. It is a dark retelling of the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer story.]
Panel 1: A snowy mountain landscape at dusk. A large brown buck reindeer leans down toward a newborn pink fawn lying on the snow beside its mother (a tan doe). The buck appears to be inspecting the baby.
Panel 2: Close-up on the pink fawn. It has a glowing red nose and several small red marks or wounds on its body. The large parent reindeer looms over it from above. The fawn smiles uneasily.
Panel 3: A wider shot of a grassy field with mountains behind. The pink fawn and the tan doe stand at the far left watching. Two brown bucks charge at each other and lock antlers, fighting violently. One of the bucks has a red glowing nose and the same red wound-marks, blood spraying.
Votey: A black-and-white close-up of a dog (or similar animal) with a furrowed, disapproving brow. A speech bubble reads: "I DISAPPROVE OF YOUR CONDUCT, SIR."
Panel 1: A snowy mountain landscape at dusk. A large brown buck reindeer leans down toward a newborn pink fawn lying on the snow beside its mother (a tan doe). The buck appears to be inspecting the baby.
Panel 2: Close-up on the pink fawn. It has a glowing red nose and several small red marks or wounds on its body. The large parent reindeer looms over it from above. The fawn smiles uneasily.
Panel 3: A wider shot of a grassy field with mountains behind. The pink fawn and the tan doe stand at the far left watching. Two brown bucks charge at each other and lock antlers, fighting violently. One of the bucks has a red glowing nose and the same red wound-marks, blood spraying.
Votey: A black-and-white close-up of a dog (or similar animal) with a furrowed, disapproving brow. A speech bubble reads: "I DISAPPROVE OF YOUR CONDUCT, SIR."
Alt text
A wordless three-panel SMBC comic that retells Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as a grim nature scene. Panel 1: at dusk in snowy mountains, a large brown buck leans down to inspect a newborn pink fawn lying in the snow next to its tan mother. Panel 2: a close-up of the fawn, which has a glowing red nose and small red wound-marks on its body, smiling nervously as the big reindeer looms over it. Panel 3: in a grassy field, the pink fawn and its mother watch from the left while two brown bucks violently lock antlers and fight, one of them sporting the red glowing nose and bleeding wound-marks. The implication is that the red-nosed reindeer was not joyfully accepted but bullied and brutalized. The votey aftercomic is a black-and-white close-up of a disapproving dog-like animal with a furrowed brow saying, "I DISAPPROVE OF YOUR CONDUCT, SIR."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.