oh-no
Original: oh-no on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman and a young girl walk across a grassy field toward a house. On the ground in the foreground lies a large dead bird (a hawk or similar), on its back with legs in the air and tongue out.
Girl: OH NO!
Panel 2:
Woman (the mother): Oh, don't worry. He's just, uh... sleeping.
Panel 3:
Mother: With his eyes wide open.
Panel 4:
Mother: Upside down.
Panel 5:
Mother: Oh look! The ants are making a blanket!
Panel 6:
Mother: And Mr. Coyote is fighting with the ants to see who gets to tuck in Mr. Bird for bed!
Panel 7:
Mother (looking pained/grimacing): I think the vultures will re-assemble him after his nap.
Panel 8:
Girl (cheerful): He sure is a sound sleeper!
Votey:
A bird (drawn loosely, in flight) speaks: Thanks guys!
A vulture's head at lower left replies: No prob
A woman and a young girl walk across a grassy field toward a house. On the ground in the foreground lies a large dead bird (a hawk or similar), on its back with legs in the air and tongue out.
Girl: OH NO!
Panel 2:
Woman (the mother): Oh, don't worry. He's just, uh... sleeping.
Panel 3:
Mother: With his eyes wide open.
Panel 4:
Mother: Upside down.
Panel 5:
Mother: Oh look! The ants are making a blanket!
Panel 6:
Mother: And Mr. Coyote is fighting with the ants to see who gets to tuck in Mr. Bird for bed!
Panel 7:
Mother (looking pained/grimacing): I think the vultures will re-assemble him after his nap.
Panel 8:
Girl (cheerful): He sure is a sound sleeper!
Votey:
A bird (drawn loosely, in flight) speaks: Thanks guys!
A vulture's head at lower left replies: No prob
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a mother and her young daughter walk across a grassy field toward a house; in the foreground lies a large dead bird flat on its back, legs sticking up, tongue lolling out. The girl cries "OH NO!" The mother spends the next panels reassuring her with increasingly grim euphemisms: "Oh, don't worry. He's just, uh... sleeping." / "With his eyes wide open." / "Upside down." / "Oh look! The ants are making a blanket!" / "And Mr. Coyote is fighting with the ants to see who gets to tuck in Mr. Bird for bed!" In a panel where the mother looks visibly pained, she adds: "I think the vultures will re-assemble him after his nap." The oblivious daughter happily concludes: "He sure is a sound sleeper!" The joke: the mother is reframing the bird being decomposed and scavenged as a cozy bedtime. Votey (bonus panel): a bird flies overhead saying "Thanks guys!" while a vulture's head below replies "No prob" — implying the scavengers really did put the bird back together.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.