2013-07-20
Original: 2013-07-20 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A pitch-black void.
Panel 2: Crackling cyan bolts of energy converge from the edges toward a central point in the darkness.
Panel 3: A ghostly white amorphous shape begins to form against a dark teal background.
Panel 4: The shape has become a screaming skeletal creature with arms spread wide, against a purple background.
Creature: UPRRRGHH!
Panel 5: The creature, now with a goat-like horned skull, rears back.
Creature: GARRGH!
Panel 6: A white horned beast screams, an arm reaching in from the right.
Beast: AAAAAH!
Panel 7: The form has resolved into an ordinary white rabbit. On a stage, a magician in a suit stands at a podium behind a red curtain; a seated audience watches.
Audience member: WOW! HE MADE A RABBIT FROM NOTHING!
Magician: IT'S JUST SLEIGHT OF HAND, SON.
Votey: A man's head and shoulders; he has a thought bubble.
Man (thinking): THERE'S GOTTA BE A BETTER WAY...
Panel 2: Crackling cyan bolts of energy converge from the edges toward a central point in the darkness.
Panel 3: A ghostly white amorphous shape begins to form against a dark teal background.
Panel 4: The shape has become a screaming skeletal creature with arms spread wide, against a purple background.
Creature: UPRRRGHH!
Panel 5: The creature, now with a goat-like horned skull, rears back.
Creature: GARRGH!
Panel 6: A white horned beast screams, an arm reaching in from the right.
Beast: AAAAAH!
Panel 7: The form has resolved into an ordinary white rabbit. On a stage, a magician in a suit stands at a podium behind a red curtain; a seated audience watches.
Audience member: WOW! HE MADE A RABBIT FROM NOTHING!
Magician: IT'S JUST SLEIGHT OF HAND, SON.
Votey: A man's head and shoulders; he has a thought bubble.
Man (thinking): THERE'S GOTTA BE A BETTER WAY...
Alt text
A tall vertical SMBC comic reading top to bottom. It opens on total blackness, then crackling cyan energy bolts converge to a central point. A ghostly white shape coalesces and morphs through increasingly monstrous, screaming forms: a skeletal figure with arms spread crying 'UPRRRGHH!', then a horned goat-skulled creature shouting 'GARRGH!', then a horned white beast yelling 'AAAAAH!'. The terrifying buildup finally resolves into an ordinary white rabbit. The last panel pulls back to reveal a mundane scene: a magician in a suit stands at a podium on a stage with a red curtain, an audience watching. An audience member exclaims 'WOW! HE MADE A RABBIT FROM NOTHING!' and the magician replies 'IT'S JUST SLEIGHT OF HAND, SON.' The joke: the cosmic, horrifying act of creation was just a stage magician's rabbit trick. Votey: a man with a thought bubble thinks 'THERE'S GOTTA BE A BETTER WAY...'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.