2013-01-24
Original: 2013-01-24 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic:
A stick figure holding a shovel stands atop a tall, narrow mountain peak, calling down to others.
Stick figure: "ALL THE BEST WORK HAS BEEN DONE OVER HERE!"
Below and to the left, a large golden/yellow buried deposit (an ore-vein or treasure) sits untouched in the brown earth, far from where the figure is digging. The figure's peak is a deep, branching root-like shaft riddled with small grey rocks, dug straight down into barren ground rather than toward the rich golden deposit.
Votey:
The same stick figure, holding the shovel, stands on the dug-out peak.
Stick figure: "THE FUNDING IS HERE TOO!"
A stick figure holding a shovel stands atop a tall, narrow mountain peak, calling down to others.
Stick figure: "ALL THE BEST WORK HAS BEEN DONE OVER HERE!"
Below and to the left, a large golden/yellow buried deposit (an ore-vein or treasure) sits untouched in the brown earth, far from where the figure is digging. The figure's peak is a deep, branching root-like shaft riddled with small grey rocks, dug straight down into barren ground rather than toward the rich golden deposit.
Votey:
The same stick figure, holding the shovel, stands on the dug-out peak.
Stick figure: "THE FUNDING IS HERE TOO!"
Alt text
Main comic: a single tall panel. A stick figure with a shovel stands on top of a very tall, thin, deeply-dug brown peak that branches downward like a root system riddled with small grey rocks, all dug into plain barren earth. The figure shouts in a speech bubble, "ALL THE BEST WORK HAS BEEN DONE OVER HERE!" Meanwhile, off to the left and clearly untouched, a huge golden buried deposit sits in the ground where no one has bothered to dig. The joke: everyone piles onto the same exhausted spot insisting it's where the value is, while the actual rich vein lies ignored elsewhere. Votey: a small black-bordered panel showing the same stick figure with its shovel on the dug-out peak, adding in a speech bubble, "THE FUNDING IS HERE TOO!" — pointing at the real reason everyone crowds the same picked-over ground.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.