2011-07-04
Original: 2011-07-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A bald, bearded man speaks toward a darker robed figure (a deity/Death-like figure).
Man: "IF GOOD WHEN DIE, GO TO MEATLAND!"
Panel 2: The robed figure gestures to a pile.
Robed figure: "MEAT!" (a heap of meat is shown)
Panel 3:
Man: "IF BAD WHEN DIE, GO TO AD MEATLAND?"
Panel 4: The robed figure waves dismissively.
Robed figure: "NO MEAT!"
Panel 5: A man with flame-like orange hair asks.
Orange-haired man: "HOW BE GOOD, GET TO MEATLAND?"
Panel 6: The robed figure replies.
Robed figure: "READ STONE TABLET. DO WHAT SAY."
Caption between panels: SEVERAL MOONS LATER
Panel 7: The orange-haired man, holding a stone tablet, confronts the robed figure.
Orange-haired man: "STONE TABLET CONTAIN ARBITRARY RULES AND CONTRADICTIONS."
Robed figure: "IS METAPHORICAL."
Panel 8:
Orange-haired man: "IS ALL METAPHORICAL?"
Robed figure: "IS CONTEXT-DEPENDENT?"
Panel 9:
Orange-haired man: "CAN SPECIFY WHICH IS WHICH IN ADVANCE?"
Panel 10: The orange-haired man throws up his arms in frustration; the robed figure stands with another small figure.
Orange-haired man: "HMM. NOT GO TO MEATLAND!"
Votey:
Caption: "ALSO..."
A stick figure walking away says: "SOYGATORY."
Man: "IF GOOD WHEN DIE, GO TO MEATLAND!"
Panel 2: The robed figure gestures to a pile.
Robed figure: "MEAT!" (a heap of meat is shown)
Panel 3:
Man: "IF BAD WHEN DIE, GO TO AD MEATLAND?"
Panel 4: The robed figure waves dismissively.
Robed figure: "NO MEAT!"
Panel 5: A man with flame-like orange hair asks.
Orange-haired man: "HOW BE GOOD, GET TO MEATLAND?"
Panel 6: The robed figure replies.
Robed figure: "READ STONE TABLET. DO WHAT SAY."
Caption between panels: SEVERAL MOONS LATER
Panel 7: The orange-haired man, holding a stone tablet, confronts the robed figure.
Orange-haired man: "STONE TABLET CONTAIN ARBITRARY RULES AND CONTRADICTIONS."
Robed figure: "IS METAPHORICAL."
Panel 8:
Orange-haired man: "IS ALL METAPHORICAL?"
Robed figure: "IS CONTEXT-DEPENDENT?"
Panel 9:
Orange-haired man: "CAN SPECIFY WHICH IS WHICH IN ADVANCE?"
Panel 10: The orange-haired man throws up his arms in frustration; the robed figure stands with another small figure.
Orange-haired man: "HMM. NOT GO TO MEATLAND!"
Votey:
Caption: "ALSO..."
A stick figure walking away says: "SOYGATORY."
Alt text
A tall multi-panel comic drawn in a loose, cartoonish style. A bald, bearded caveman-like man bargains with a dark robed deity figure about the afterlife, speaking in broken grammar. The man asks if being good when you die sends you to "MEATLAND," and the deity gestures to a pile of meat saying "MEAT!" When the man asks about being bad, the deity says "NO MEAT!" A man with flame-like orange hair asks how to be good and reach Meatland; the deity tells him to read a stone tablet and do what it says. A caption reads "SEVERAL MOONS LATER." The orange-haired man returns holding the stone tablet and complains it contains arbitrary rules and contradictions. The deity keeps deflecting: "IS METAPHORICAL," "IS CONTEXT-DEPENDENT?" When the man asks if the deity can specify which rules are which in advance, he gets no real answer and finally throws up his arms, declaring "HMM. NOT GO TO MEATLAND!" In the votey panel, captioned "ALSO...", a small stick figure walks away saying "SOYGATORY" - a pun on purgatory and soy, the non-meat afterlife.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.