2011-06-09
Original: 2011-06-09 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A large wooden Trojan horse on wheels stands in a grassy field. Soldiers in helmets carrying round shields stand around its base; one soldier appears to be climbing a ladder into the horse's belly.
Panel 2: The wooden horse, partially constructed (just the front section/head), sits inside or before a city wall. A row of modern-looking civilians peer over the wall watching it: smiling people in casual clothes, including a long-bearded man, a younger bearded man, and others.
Panel 3: The finished Trojan horse on wheels stands inside the city walls. Small purple-robed figures line the tops of the walls in the background.
Panel 4: Close combat scene. A spear thrust from the right plunges into the chest of a bearded man in a blue shirt (left), while a helmeted, muscular warrior in the foreground grapples another fighter. Blood and the chaos of an ambush surround them.
Panel 5:
Flame-haired woman in a red dress (speaking): I DON'T WANT A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP. I JUST WANT MORE CHANCES TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU.
Man (facing away from viewer): OKAY... I GUESS YOU CAN MOVE IN THEN...
Votey:
Caption (top): SOON...
A black-and-white sketch of a smiling, smug-looking bearded man holding a pole or spear-like object, evoking the Trojan-horse soldier emerging from inside.
Panel 2: The wooden horse, partially constructed (just the front section/head), sits inside or before a city wall. A row of modern-looking civilians peer over the wall watching it: smiling people in casual clothes, including a long-bearded man, a younger bearded man, and others.
Panel 3: The finished Trojan horse on wheels stands inside the city walls. Small purple-robed figures line the tops of the walls in the background.
Panel 4: Close combat scene. A spear thrust from the right plunges into the chest of a bearded man in a blue shirt (left), while a helmeted, muscular warrior in the foreground grapples another fighter. Blood and the chaos of an ambush surround them.
Panel 5:
Flame-haired woman in a red dress (speaking): I DON'T WANT A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP. I JUST WANT MORE CHANCES TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU.
Man (facing away from viewer): OKAY... I GUESS YOU CAN MOVE IN THEN...
Votey:
Caption (top): SOON...
A black-and-white sketch of a smiling, smug-looking bearded man holding a pole or spear-like object, evoking the Trojan-horse soldier emerging from inside.
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic retelling the Trojan Horse as a relationship metaphor. Panels 1-3 show the classic Greek Trojan horse: a giant wooden horse on wheels surrounded by helmeted soldiers, being built and wheeled inside a city's walls while watchers (drawn as modern casual-dressed people) peer over the ramparts. Panel 4 shows the ambush from inside the horse: soldiers attacking, a spear driving into a man's chest. Panel 5 cuts to a modern couple: a flame-haired woman in a red dress says to a man, 'I don't want a serious relationship. I just want more chances to have sex with you,' and he replies, 'Okay... I guess you can move in then...' The joke equates moving in together under a no-strings premise with smuggling the Trojan horse inside the gates. Votey aftercomic: captioned 'SOON...', a rough black-and-white sketch of a smug, smiling bearded man holding a pole, implying the man has been deceptively let inside and will spring the relationship trap.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.