afterlife
Original: afterlife on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bearded man standing behind a podium, set in a heaven-like place with white clouds, golden walls, and a blue sky. He gestures welcomingly toward a newcomer (a man with brown hair seen from behind).
Bearded man at podium: "WELCOME, WELCOME! EVERYONE HERE IS REASONABLE, CONSIDERATE, PRUDENT, AND DELIBERATE."
Caption (below panel): There is a special Hell for politicians.
Votey:
Close-up of a distressed-looking man (the newcomer) with a worried expression.
Thought/speech bubble: "May I please go to the acid mines?"
A bearded man standing behind a podium, set in a heaven-like place with white clouds, golden walls, and a blue sky. He gestures welcomingly toward a newcomer (a man with brown hair seen from behind).
Bearded man at podium: "WELCOME, WELCOME! EVERYONE HERE IS REASONABLE, CONSIDERATE, PRUDENT, AND DELIBERATE."
Caption (below panel): There is a special Hell for politicians.
Votey:
Close-up of a distressed-looking man (the newcomer) with a worried expression.
Thought/speech bubble: "May I please go to the acid mines?"
Alt text
A bearded man stands behind a podium in a heaven-like setting with white clouds, golden walls, and a blue sky, gesturing in welcome to a brown-haired man seen from behind. He says, "Welcome, welcome! Everyone here is reasonable, considerate, prudent, and deliberate." The caption below reads: "There is a special Hell for politicians." The joke: for a politician, an eternity surrounded by reasonable, deliberate people is itself the torment. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the distressed newcomer pleads in a bubble, "May I please go to the acid mines?" — begging for conventional torture instead.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.