2013-02-17
Original: 2013-02-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman in a yellow shirt with reddish hair, leaning forward and gesturing, speaks angrily to a dark-haired man whose back is to the viewer. Two other people (a man in a gray shirt and tie, and a woman with dark hair) sit nearby listening.
Woman in yellow: "You spent BILLIONS just to dress like an idiot and stop some muggers and gangsters? You're going to die some day and we'll all be worse off for the arms race you started with criminals! Do you have any idea how much crime could've been stopped by spending a billion dollars on after school programs?"
Caption (below panel): "Batman should never have revealed his secret identity."
Votey:
A man (drawn in simple black-and-white sketch style) crouches and tosses a small round object to the ground.
Man: "SMOKE BOMB!"
A woman in a yellow shirt with reddish hair, leaning forward and gesturing, speaks angrily to a dark-haired man whose back is to the viewer. Two other people (a man in a gray shirt and tie, and a woman with dark hair) sit nearby listening.
Woman in yellow: "You spent BILLIONS just to dress like an idiot and stop some muggers and gangsters? You're going to die some day and we'll all be worse off for the arms race you started with criminals! Do you have any idea how much crime could've been stopped by spending a billion dollars on after school programs?"
Caption (below panel): "Batman should never have revealed his secret identity."
Votey:
A man (drawn in simple black-and-white sketch style) crouches and tosses a small round object to the ground.
Man: "SMOKE BOMB!"
Alt text
A color comic panel shows a woman with reddish hair in a yellow shirt leaning forward and gesturing emphatically at a dark-haired man seen from behind, while two other people sit nearby listening. Her speech bubble reads: "You spent BILLIONS just to dress like an idiot and stop some muggers and gangsters? You're going to die some day and we'll all be worse off for the arms race you started with criminals! Do you have any idea how much crime could've been stopped by spending a billion dollars on after school programs?" A caption below the panel reads: "Batman should never have revealed his secret identity." The joke is that the man being scolded is Batman, getting lectured at a casual social gathering now that everyone knows who he is. The votey (bonus panel), in a rough black-and-white sketch, shows the man crouching and tossing a small ball to the floor while shouting "SMOKE BOMB!" — escaping the awkward conversation using a gadget.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.