sheep39s-clothing
Original: sheep39s-clothing on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (reading to child): "Okay, but have you considered that if you can't tell fellow sheep from a giant predatory dog that's wearing your dead friend... on some level you deserve to die?"
Caption (below panel): There's a reason fables always add explicit morals.
Votey:
Woman (continuing): "Honestly, most of these animals shouldn't be in the gene pool."
Woman (reading to child): "Okay, but have you considered that if you can't tell fellow sheep from a giant predatory dog that's wearing your dead friend... on some level you deserve to die?"
Caption (below panel): There's a reason fables always add explicit morals.
Votey:
Woman (continuing): "Honestly, most of these animals shouldn't be in the gene pool."
Alt text
A woman with glasses sits in an armchair holding a child on her lap, reading aloud from a purple storybook labeled "AESOP." The child looks up at her. The woman says: "Okay, but have you considered that if you can't tell fellow sheep from a giant predatory dog that's wearing your dead friend... on some level you deserve to die?" A caption below reads: "There's a reason fables always add explicit morals." In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the same woman's face shows her deadpan as she adds: "Honestly, most of these animals shouldn't be in the gene pool." The joke skewers the harsh logic of Aesop's fables by having the storyteller voice a brutally judgmental moral.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.