2013-03-19
Original: 2013-03-19 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A grinning man with green hair and red gloves, wearing a yellow jacket, holds his hands to his head in triumph.
Green-haired man: HA! I DID IT! I WENT BACK IN TIME AND ASSASSINATED HARTLER BEFORE HE CAME TO POWER.
Panel 2: A tall older man with gray hair in a gray jacket and blue shirt looks down skeptically at the small green-haired man.
Gray-haired man: YOU MEAN HITLER?
Panel 3: A balding man with a yellow jacket and red shirt speaks earnestly.
Balding man: NO. WHO'S HITLER? HARTLER CAME TO POWER IN 1930s GERMANY AND STABILIZED CURRENCY BY PEGGING THE REICHSMARK TO THE DOLLAR. IT CAUSED THE DEPRESSION TO CONTINUE TILL THE EARLY 1940s!
Panel 4: The balding man (seen from behind/side) faces the gray-haired older man, who now looks worried.
Balding man: WHY, WHAT HAPPENED?
Votey: A man with short hair, shown from the chest up, looks uneasy.
Text: ALSO HOW COME YOU'RE NOT NAMED ADOLF ANYMORE.
Green-haired man: HA! I DID IT! I WENT BACK IN TIME AND ASSASSINATED HARTLER BEFORE HE CAME TO POWER.
Panel 2: A tall older man with gray hair in a gray jacket and blue shirt looks down skeptically at the small green-haired man.
Gray-haired man: YOU MEAN HITLER?
Panel 3: A balding man with a yellow jacket and red shirt speaks earnestly.
Balding man: NO. WHO'S HITLER? HARTLER CAME TO POWER IN 1930s GERMANY AND STABILIZED CURRENCY BY PEGGING THE REICHSMARK TO THE DOLLAR. IT CAUSED THE DEPRESSION TO CONTINUE TILL THE EARLY 1940s!
Panel 4: The balding man (seen from behind/side) faces the gray-haired older man, who now looks worried.
Balding man: WHY, WHAT HAPPENED?
Votey: A man with short hair, shown from the chest up, looks uneasy.
Text: ALSO HOW COME YOU'RE NOT NAMED ADOLF ANYMORE.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: a grinning man with green hair, red gloves, and a yellow jacket holds his hands to his head triumphantly, saying "Ha! I did it! I went back in time and assassinated Hartler before he came to power." Panel 2: a tall gray-haired man in a gray jacket looks down skeptically and asks, "You mean Hitler?" Panel 3: a balding man replies earnestly, "No. Who's Hitler? Hartler came to power in 1930s Germany and stabilized currency by pegging the Reichsmark to the dollar. It caused the Depression to continue till the early 1940s!" Panel 4: the balding man asks, "Why, what happened?" while the gray-haired man now looks worried, realizing reality has been altered. The joke is that the time traveler killed the wrong man and erased the real Hitler from history. Votey aftercomic: a man with short hair looks uneasy and adds, "Also how come you're not named Adolf anymore," implying the time traveler himself has been subtly changed.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.