holmes
Original: holmes on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man in a deerstalker hat and cape (in the style of Sherlock Holmes), speaking confidently with a raised finger, beside another mustached man in a bowler hat:
Holmes-style detective: "THE CRUCIAL CLUE WAS, IN FACT, AN ANALYSIS OF THE HANDWRITING ON THAT CARD. YOU CAN TELL MUCH ABOUT A MAN'S CHARACTER FROM THE CHARACTER OF HIS SCRIPT."
Caption (below panel):
"To date, Sherlock Holmes has sent 439 innocent men to the gallows."
Votey:
Handwritten note: "Today's joke is exactly 128 years late!" (with "exactly" underlined)
A man in a deerstalker hat and cape (in the style of Sherlock Holmes), speaking confidently with a raised finger, beside another mustached man in a bowler hat:
Holmes-style detective: "THE CRUCIAL CLUE WAS, IN FACT, AN ANALYSIS OF THE HANDWRITING ON THAT CARD. YOU CAN TELL MUCH ABOUT A MAN'S CHARACTER FROM THE CHARACTER OF HIS SCRIPT."
Caption (below panel):
"To date, Sherlock Holmes has sent 439 innocent men to the gallows."
Votey:
Handwritten note: "Today's joke is exactly 128 years late!" (with "exactly" underlined)
Alt text
A two-panel webcomic. Main panel: a Sherlock Holmes-style detective in a deerstalker hat and caped coat raises a finger and declares, 'The crucial clue was, in fact, an analysis of the handwriting on that card. You can tell much about a man's character from the character of his script,' while a mustached companion in a bowler hat stands beside him. A caption below reads: 'To date, Sherlock Holmes has sent 439 innocent men to the gallows.' The joke: Holmes's confident handwriting-analysis (graphology) deduction is pseudoscience, so his reasoning has wrongly condemned hundreds. Votey (aftercomic): a handwritten note on a blank panel reads, 'Today's joke is exactly 128 years late!' with 'exactly' underlined, poking fun at the dated subject matter.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.