2013-10-13
Original: 2013-10-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (at door): Oooh! Spooky! Are you dressed as Death, little man?
Panel 2:
Child (a boy with red hair, holding a scythe): No, Death has a scythe. I have a Bob's Feather Duster. I'm a "Lethargic Personification Of Death."
Panel 3:
Child: Is that headache a memorrhage? Is that back pain a spinal infection? Is all the leftover candy you'll eat going to give you a heart attack?
Panel 4:
Child (raising the feather duster): Tickle tickle tickle!
Panel 5:
Woman (the man's partner, watching): Wow! How many houses did you go to this year?
Child: One.
Votey:
The child (in profile, wearing a hood, looking grim): Dead men need no Tootsie Rolls.
Man (at door): Oooh! Spooky! Are you dressed as Death, little man?
Panel 2:
Child (a boy with red hair, holding a scythe): No, Death has a scythe. I have a Bob's Feather Duster. I'm a "Lethargic Personification Of Death."
Panel 3:
Child: Is that headache a memorrhage? Is that back pain a spinal infection? Is all the leftover candy you'll eat going to give you a heart attack?
Panel 4:
Child (raising the feather duster): Tickle tickle tickle!
Panel 5:
Woman (the man's partner, watching): Wow! How many houses did you go to this year?
Child: One.
Votey:
The child (in profile, wearing a hood, looking grim): Dead men need no Tootsie Rolls.
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A man opens his front door and greets a small red-haired boy in a hooded costume, saying "Oooh! Spooky! Are you dressed as Death, little man?" Panel 2: The boy holds up a feather duster and corrects him: "No, Death has a scythe. I have a Bob's Feather Duster. I'm a 'Lethargic Personification Of Death.'" Panel 3: The boy ominously asks whether the man's headache is a brain hemorrhage, his back pain a spinal infection, and whether the leftover candy he'll eat will give him a heart attack. Panel 4: The boy lightly waves the feather duster, saying "Tickle tickle tickle!" Panel 5: A woman beside the man asks the boy, "Wow! How many houses did you go to this year?" and he flatly replies, "One." Votey: A close-up of the hooded, grim-faced boy in profile declaring, "Dead men need no Tootsie Rolls."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.