time-awkwardness
Original: time-awkwardness on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title caption (top of panel): BEST USE OF A TIME MACHINE: RECORDING HISTORY'S MOST AWKWARD MOMENTS
A man with a top hat and a curled mustache (dressed in 19th-century formal attire, evoking the era of Abraham Lincoln): "Yes we all agree it's very sad about Mr. Lincoln, but I didn't pay full price for three-fourths of a show."
(To his left stands a balding, bearded man in glasses; to his right a woman in a yellow dress presses a hand to her face in dismay.)
Votey:
Handwritten text on a blank panel: "Too soon?"
A man with a top hat and a curled mustache (dressed in 19th-century formal attire, evoking the era of Abraham Lincoln): "Yes we all agree it's very sad about Mr. Lincoln, but I didn't pay full price for three-fourths of a show."
(To his left stands a balding, bearded man in glasses; to his right a woman in a yellow dress presses a hand to her face in dismay.)
Votey:
Handwritten text on a blank panel: "Too soon?"
Alt text
A single-panel comic captioned "BEST USE OF A TIME MACHINE: RECORDING HISTORY'S MOST AWKWARD MOMENTS." Three people in old-fashioned formal clothing stand in a room. A man in a top hat with a curled mustache says, "Yes we all agree it's very sad about Mr. Lincoln, but I didn't pay full price for three-fourths of a show" - a callous joke referencing the fact that Lincoln was assassinated partway through a theater performance. Beside him a bearded man in glasses listens and a woman in a yellow dress covers part of her face in embarrassment. The votey (a small follow-up panel) is blank except for handwritten text reading "Too soon?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.