sleeping-beauty
Original: sleeping-beauty on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption): LONG HAS SHE LAIN ASLEEP, AWAITING THE KISS OF A TRUE PRINCE.
[A prince leans over a sleeping princess lying on a bed, about to kiss her.]
Panel 2:
Princess (just woken, recoiling): A PRINCE. OH MY GOD! EW. GOD!
Panel 3:
Princess: WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU BRUSHED YOUR TEETH?!
Panel 4:
Prince: I DON'T -
Princess: AUGH. STOP EXHALING AT ME.
Panel 5:
Princess: IT'S LIKE A RAT DIED OF LEPROSY IN YOUR NECK.
Panel 6:
Prince (to the princess as another figure walks away in the background): WE SHOULD'VE THOUGHT THIS ARRANGEMENT THROUGH MORE.
Panel 7:
Princess: HOLY CHRIST HE WASN'T KIDDING.
Votey:
[Close-up of the prince's face, looking smug/deadpan.]
Prince: THIS IS A SUPER-POWER.
[A prince leans over a sleeping princess lying on a bed, about to kiss her.]
Panel 2:
Princess (just woken, recoiling): A PRINCE. OH MY GOD! EW. GOD!
Panel 3:
Princess: WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU BRUSHED YOUR TEETH?!
Panel 4:
Prince: I DON'T -
Princess: AUGH. STOP EXHALING AT ME.
Panel 5:
Princess: IT'S LIKE A RAT DIED OF LEPROSY IN YOUR NECK.
Panel 6:
Prince (to the princess as another figure walks away in the background): WE SHOULD'VE THOUGHT THIS ARRANGEMENT THROUGH MORE.
Panel 7:
Princess: HOLY CHRIST HE WASN'T KIDDING.
Votey:
[Close-up of the prince's face, looking smug/deadpan.]
Prince: THIS IS A SUPER-POWER.
Alt text
A seven-panel SMBC comic parodying Sleeping Beauty. Caption over the first panel reads "Long has she lain asleep, awaiting the kiss of a true prince," as a prince leans over a princess sleeping on a bed. She wakes and recoils in disgust, shouting "A prince. Oh my God! Ew. God!" then "When was the last time you brushed your teeth?!" The prince starts to say "I don't-" but she cuts him off: "Augh. Stop exhaling at me. It's like a rat died of leprosy in your neck." The prince admits, "We should've thought this arrangement through more," and the princess reacts in horror: "Holy Christ he wasn't kidding." The joke is that his breath is supernaturally, unbearably foul. Votey: a close-up of the prince's deadpan face declaring, "This is a super-power."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.