2013-07-17
Original: 2013-07-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with reddish-brown hair: The American flags on the moon have been there so long, solar radiation has turned them white.
A woman with darker hair: What?! Really?!
Panel 2:
The reddish-brown-haired woman: Uh, yeah.
The dark-haired woman (suddenly excited, eyes wide): Leave! I have to start working on something!
Panel 3:
Caption: 20 YEARS LATER.
The dark-haired woman, now standing on a stage before a silhouetted crowd, arms raised: People of Earth! I've claimed the moon on which you raised the flag of surrender!
Votey:
A white flag flying from a pole planted in the gray lunar surface, against a black starry sky. (No text.)
A woman with reddish-brown hair: The American flags on the moon have been there so long, solar radiation has turned them white.
A woman with darker hair: What?! Really?!
Panel 2:
The reddish-brown-haired woman: Uh, yeah.
The dark-haired woman (suddenly excited, eyes wide): Leave! I have to start working on something!
Panel 3:
Caption: 20 YEARS LATER.
The dark-haired woman, now standing on a stage before a silhouetted crowd, arms raised: People of Earth! I've claimed the moon on which you raised the flag of surrender!
Votey:
A white flag flying from a pole planted in the gray lunar surface, against a black starry sky. (No text.)
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel 1: A woman with reddish-brown hair tells a dark-haired woman that the American flags on the moon have been bleached white by solar radiation. The dark-haired woman reacts: 'What?! Really?!' Panel 2: The first woman confirms, 'Uh, yeah.' The dark-haired woman, eyes wide with sudden inspiration, shouts 'Leave! I have to start working on something!' Panel 3: Labeled '20 years later,' the dark-haired woman stands on a stage with arms raised before a crowd of silhouettes, declaring 'People of Earth! I've claimed the moon on which you raised the flag of surrender!' The joke is that she reinterpreted the radiation-faded American flags as flags of surrender and used that as a pretext to conquer the moon. Votey aftercomic: a single panel showing a plain white flag flying from a pole planted in the gray lunar soil under a black starry sky, the bleached 'flag of surrender' itself.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.