2015-02-17
Original: 2015-02-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A tour guide leads a group through a shrine. A speech bubble (from the guide) reads: "THIS IS THE SAINT'S TOMB. HIS BODY IS DIVINELY BLESSED, AND IS THUS INCORRUPTIBLE. IT DOES NOT DECAY."
Panel 2: A man with brown hair wearing white glasses reacts, eyes wide. Speech bubble: "WAIT, REALLY!?!"
Panel 3: A product package / box, styled like food packaging, with large text. Front label reads: "FRANCIS XAVIER TO BE USED AS FOOD PRESERVATIVE". A small starburst badge on the box reads: "IT'S A MIRACLE OF FRESHNESS!"
Votey: A blank panel with hand-lettered text: "CAUTION: COMIC MAY CONTAIN BLASPHEMOL."
Panel 2: A man with brown hair wearing white glasses reacts, eyes wide. Speech bubble: "WAIT, REALLY!?!"
Panel 3: A product package / box, styled like food packaging, with large text. Front label reads: "FRANCIS XAVIER TO BE USED AS FOOD PRESERVATIVE". A small starburst badge on the box reads: "IT'S A MIRACLE OF FRESHNESS!"
Votey: A blank panel with hand-lettered text: "CAUTION: COMIC MAY CONTAIN BLASPHEMOL."
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel 1: A tour guide stands before an ornate golden shrine, telling a group of tourists, "This is the saint's tomb. His body is divinely blessed, and is thus incorruptible. It does not decay." Panel 2: A brown-haired man in white glasses reacts with wide-eyed excitement, saying "Wait, really!?!" Panel 3: The joke's payoff is a mockup of a grocery product package reading "FRANCIS XAVIER TO BE USED AS FOOD PRESERVATIVE," with a starburst badge declaring "It's a miracle of freshness!" The gag treats an incorruptible saint's body as a commercial food preservative. Votey (aftercomic): a blank panel with the hand-lettered warning "Caution: comic may contain blasphemol," punning on a preservative chemical name and "blasphemy."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.