hello-miss
Original: hello-miss on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (dark hair, white streaks at temples, red tie): "Hello, miss. Might I interest you in some... PREMARITAL SEX?"
Woman: (listening, unsmiling)
Panel 2:
Caption: LATER...
Man (lying in bed, shirtless, under green covers, laughing): "HA! I have no intention to MARRY you!"
Woman (sitting up in bed in underwear): "...great?"
Caption below comic:
Unsung Victories of Social Progress:
Pretty much everyone is a Victorian novel villain now.
Votey:
A loosely sketched, anguished man's face with a wavering line-art style.
Man: "But I love you"
Man (dark hair, white streaks at temples, red tie): "Hello, miss. Might I interest you in some... PREMARITAL SEX?"
Woman: (listening, unsmiling)
Panel 2:
Caption: LATER...
Man (lying in bed, shirtless, under green covers, laughing): "HA! I have no intention to MARRY you!"
Woman (sitting up in bed in underwear): "...great?"
Caption below comic:
Unsung Victories of Social Progress:
Pretty much everyone is a Victorian novel villain now.
Votey:
A loosely sketched, anguished man's face with a wavering line-art style.
Man: "But I love you"
Alt text
Two-panel comic. Panel 1: A smiling man with dark hair and red tie leans toward a woman, saying, "Hello, miss. Might I interest you in some... PREMARITAL SEX?" The woman listens with a flat expression. Panel 2, labeled "LATER...": The same man lies shirtless in bed under green covers, throwing his head back in triumphant laughter and declaring, "HA! I have no intention to MARRY you!" The woman, sitting up in her underwear beside him, replies dryly, "...great?" Caption: "Unsung Victories of Social Progress: Pretty much everyone is a Victorian novel villain now." The joke: a classic seduce-and-abandon villain reveal lands as a non-threat because premarital sex without marriage is exactly the desired outcome. Votey (aftercomic): a crudely sketched, distraught man's face with anguished eyes, mouth open, saying, "But I love you"—inverting the gag so the spurned party is now the man who actually wanted commitment.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.