2012-07-11
Original: 2012-07-11 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Young man with red hair (leaning eagerly over a desk): "Master! I have had an amazing idea! Yet, I fear someone else will have it before I can fully articulate it!"
Panel 2:
Elderly bearded master (seated by a stained-glass window): "Write it down. Then, you must take money and burn it. Bring me the ashes, and I will draw upon it a crescent inscribed within a circle."
Panel 3:
(Banner: "LATER...")
The red-haired young man (smiling, holding a sheet of paper while the master, holding a brush/pen, marks it): "Thank you, wise master!"
Panel 4:
(Close-up of the young man holding the paper, which now reads in handwriting):
"spray-on headbands ©"
Votey:
Text at top: "IT'S MY IDEA"
A distressed, anguished man with wild orange hair, crying and clutching himself protectively.
Young man with red hair (leaning eagerly over a desk): "Master! I have had an amazing idea! Yet, I fear someone else will have it before I can fully articulate it!"
Panel 2:
Elderly bearded master (seated by a stained-glass window): "Write it down. Then, you must take money and burn it. Bring me the ashes, and I will draw upon it a crescent inscribed within a circle."
Panel 3:
(Banner: "LATER...")
The red-haired young man (smiling, holding a sheet of paper while the master, holding a brush/pen, marks it): "Thank you, wise master!"
Panel 4:
(Close-up of the young man holding the paper, which now reads in handwriting):
"spray-on headbands ©"
Votey:
Text at top: "IT'S MY IDEA"
A distressed, anguished man with wild orange hair, crying and clutching himself protectively.
Alt text
A four-panel comic in a dim medieval setting. Panel 1: a red-haired young man leans excitedly over a desk and tells an off-panel robed figure, "Master! I have had an amazing idea! Yet, I fear someone else will have it before I can fully articulate it!" Panel 2: an old bearded master seated by a stained-glass window replies, "Write it down. Then, you must take money and burn it. Bring me the ashes, and I will draw upon it a crescent inscribed within a circle" -- describing an absurdly elaborate ritual to claim ownership of an idea. Panel 3, marked "LATER...": the young man smiles, holding a paper, as the master marks it with a pen; the man says, "Thank you, wise master!" Panel 4: a close-up of the paper reveals the precious, ritually-protected idea, handwritten with a copyright symbol: "spray-on headbands (c)" -- a ridiculously trivial idea given all the solemn ceremony. Votey: above the words "IT'S MY IDEA," the orange-haired man is shown crying and clutching himself protectively, paranoid that someone will steal his silly invention.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.