gang-signs
Original: gang-signs on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic (single panel):
Caption (below panel): The toughest thing about joining The Eschers was the gang sign.
The panel shows a stern, bald man with thick eyebrows and a small goatee, wearing a collared shirt with a number tag reading "271712". He is making an awkward, contorted hand gesture with his fingers bent in an impossible-looking, interlocking arrangement in front of his chest. A small placard or number "6283" appears at the bottom edge of the panel.
Votey (aftercomic):
No text. A loose pen-and-ink sketch montage of small, varied scenes: a couple of faces/figures, a hand reaching, some abstract geometric shapes and patterns, drawn in a quick, doodly style.
Caption (below panel): The toughest thing about joining The Eschers was the gang sign.
The panel shows a stern, bald man with thick eyebrows and a small goatee, wearing a collared shirt with a number tag reading "271712". He is making an awkward, contorted hand gesture with his fingers bent in an impossible-looking, interlocking arrangement in front of his chest. A small placard or number "6283" appears at the bottom edge of the panel.
Votey (aftercomic):
No text. A loose pen-and-ink sketch montage of small, varied scenes: a couple of faces/figures, a hand reaching, some abstract geometric shapes and patterns, drawn in a quick, doodly style.
Alt text
A single grayscale panel shows a stern, bald, frowning man with thick eyebrows and a small goatee, wearing a white collared shirt with a number tag reading "271712." He holds his hand up in front of his chest, fingers twisted into a strange, physically impossible interlocking contortion. A faint placard reads "6283" at the bottom. The caption below reads: "The toughest thing about joining The Eschers was the gang sign" — a pun on artist M.C. Escher, famous for impossible drawings, the joke being that this prison gang's hand sign is anatomically impossible to make. The votey aftercomic is a loose, doodly pen-and-ink sketch of assorted small figures, faces, a reaching hand, and abstract geometric shapes, with no text.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.