2014-12-22
Original: 2014-12-22 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A group of robed people stand around a goat in an outdoor setting. One person (a man with long hair) speaks.
Man: "We cast all of our guilt onto this goat! And now, we send it off into the wild!"
Panel 2: The goat runs off but is immediately attacked and seized by a large lion (or bear-like predator), which has pounced on it.
Panel 3: The group of people stand close together, looking on, expressions blank or uneasy.
Panel 4: Two of the men speak.
First man (long hair): "I feel guilty about the goat."
Second man (bald, with beard): "Get another goat!"
Votey:
A hand-drawn note titled "Things I can't draw":
- cats
- buildings
- bears
- cars
- goats
- lions
- lion-goat interactions
Man: "We cast all of our guilt onto this goat! And now, we send it off into the wild!"
Panel 2: The goat runs off but is immediately attacked and seized by a large lion (or bear-like predator), which has pounced on it.
Panel 3: The group of people stand close together, looking on, expressions blank or uneasy.
Panel 4: Two of the men speak.
First man (long hair): "I feel guilty about the goat."
Second man (bald, with beard): "Get another goat!"
Votey:
A hand-drawn note titled "Things I can't draw":
- cats
- buildings
- bears
- cars
- goats
- lions
- lion-goat interactions
Alt text
A four-panel comic drawn in a loose painterly style. Panel 1: a group of robed, bearded people gather around a goat outdoors; one declares, "We cast all of our guilt onto this goat! And now, we send it off into the wild!" — a riff on the scapegoat ritual. Panel 2: the released goat is instantly tackled and grabbed by a large lion/predator. Panel 3: the group stands huddled, staring blankly at what just happened. Panel 4: one man says, "I feel guilty about the goat," and a bald bearded man cheerfully replies, "Get another goat!" — the solution to scapegoat-guilt being simply another scapegoat. Votey: a hand-drawn note headed "Things I can't draw," listing cats, buildings, bears, cars, goats, lions, and — as the punchline — "lion-goat interactions," a self-deprecating joke about the comic's own crudely drawn predator-attacks-goat panel.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.