2011-11-03
Original: 2011-11-03 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A king with a crown, robe, and gray beard sits on a throne in a grand hall. A young person with red hair, wearing a green cap and outfit, stands before him.
Young person: Wait, how did you get to be king by pulling a sword from a stone? Who would ever agree to that?
Panel 2: Close on the king, gesturing.
King: Well, the story has changed a bit over time. In actuality I pulled the sword out of the stone... and then accidentally into the chest of the head of parliament...
Panel 3: Close on the young person, looking concerned, hand near their cap.
Young person: Didn't you get in trouble?
Panel 4: The king (seen from the back/side) speaks to the young person.
King: Yeah, parliament wanted my head... so... I had to "pull the sword from the stone" a couple hundred more times.
Panel 5: Close on the king.
Young person (off-panel): Why not just stab them outright?
Panel 6: Extreme close-up on the king's face, eyes lowered, looking grim and menacing.
King: Don't make me get my stone.
Votey:
Caption: Halfway through drawing:
Thought bubble (the artist, drawing at a desk): Why did I give everyone hats?!
Young person: Wait, how did you get to be king by pulling a sword from a stone? Who would ever agree to that?
Panel 2: Close on the king, gesturing.
King: Well, the story has changed a bit over time. In actuality I pulled the sword out of the stone... and then accidentally into the chest of the head of parliament...
Panel 3: Close on the young person, looking concerned, hand near their cap.
Young person: Didn't you get in trouble?
Panel 4: The king (seen from the back/side) speaks to the young person.
King: Yeah, parliament wanted my head... so... I had to "pull the sword from the stone" a couple hundred more times.
Panel 5: Close on the king.
Young person (off-panel): Why not just stab them outright?
Panel 6: Extreme close-up on the king's face, eyes lowered, looking grim and menacing.
King: Don't make me get my stone.
Votey:
Caption: Halfway through drawing:
Thought bubble (the artist, drawing at a desk): Why did I give everyone hats?!
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A red-haired youth in a green cap asks a gray-bearded king on a throne how he became king just by pulling a sword from a stone. The king explains the story changed over time: he actually pulled the sword from the stone and then accidentally into the chest of the head of parliament. The youth asks if he got in trouble. The king says parliament wanted his head, so he had to "pull the sword from the stone" a couple hundred more times. When the youth asks why not just stab them outright, the final panel is an extreme close-up of the king's grim face as he says, "Don't make me get my stone." Votey: a hand-drawn panel labeled "Halfway through drawing:" shows the artist hunched over a desk drawing, thinking in a bubble, "Why did I give everyone hats?!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.