halloween-feast
Original: halloween-feast on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man in a white tank top, wearing a paper Halloween mask, gestures grandly toward a table set with a carved jack-o-lantern, pink drinks in jars, and a bowl. A young girl in a princess crown sits at the table, and another child in a Viking helmet is beside her.
Man: "WELCOME TO THE HALLOWEEN FEAST!"
Panel 2: A row of bell peppers carved with jack-o-lantern faces sit on a table.
Narration (caption): "STUFFED PEPPERS, CARVED LIKE THEY'RE JACK-O-LANTERNS! OOOOOOH!"
Panel 3: A jar of pink lemonade with round candy eyeballs floating in it.
Narration (caption): "PINK LEMONADE WITH CANDY EYEBALLS! YIKES!"
Panel 4: A green gelatin mold shaped like a brain on a plate.
Narration (caption): "AND A SLIMEY GREEN BRAIN MADE OF GELATIN! SPOOOOOOKY!"
Panel 5: The man in the mask leans in next to the child wearing the Viking helmet, who looks up at him.
Child: "WHAT ABOUT THE TURKEY? WHY IS IT SCARY?"
Panel 6: A whole roast turkey sits on a platter on the table.
Man (caption): "THE TURKEY WAS MURDERED SO WE COULD EAT IT."
Votey:
A loosely sketched, simply drawn man's face with sunglasses, looking grim/blank.
Caption above him: "He was one day from retirement."
Man: "WELCOME TO THE HALLOWEEN FEAST!"
Panel 2: A row of bell peppers carved with jack-o-lantern faces sit on a table.
Narration (caption): "STUFFED PEPPERS, CARVED LIKE THEY'RE JACK-O-LANTERNS! OOOOOOH!"
Panel 3: A jar of pink lemonade with round candy eyeballs floating in it.
Narration (caption): "PINK LEMONADE WITH CANDY EYEBALLS! YIKES!"
Panel 4: A green gelatin mold shaped like a brain on a plate.
Narration (caption): "AND A SLIMEY GREEN BRAIN MADE OF GELATIN! SPOOOOOOKY!"
Panel 5: The man in the mask leans in next to the child wearing the Viking helmet, who looks up at him.
Child: "WHAT ABOUT THE TURKEY? WHY IS IT SCARY?"
Panel 6: A whole roast turkey sits on a platter on the table.
Man (caption): "THE TURKEY WAS MURDERED SO WE COULD EAT IT."
Votey:
A loosely sketched, simply drawn man's face with sunglasses, looking grim/blank.
Caption above him: "He was one day from retirement."
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic about a Halloween feast. Panel 1: A man in a white tank top and paper mask spreads his arms over a festive table and announces, "WELCOME TO THE HALLOWEEN FEAST!" while a girl in a princess crown and a child in a Viking helmet sit nearby. Each following panel shows a spooky-themed dish with an excited narration caption: bell peppers carved like jack-o-lanterns ("STUFFED PEPPERS, CARVED LIKE THEY'RE JACK-O-LANTERNS! OOOOOOH!"), a jar of pink lemonade with floating candy eyeballs ("PINK LEMONADE WITH CANDY EYEBALLS! YIKES!"), and a green gelatin brain mold ("AND A SLIMEY GREEN BRAIN MADE OF GELATIN! SPOOOOOOKY!"). The Viking-helmet child then asks, "WHAT ABOUT THE TURKEY? WHY IS IT SCARY?" The final panel shows an ordinary roast turkey on a platter, while the man flatly answers, "THE TURKEY WAS MURDERED SO WE COULD EAT IT." The joke: the only genuinely macabre thing on the table is the real dead animal, not the cutesy spooky decorations. Votey (aftercomic): a crudely drawn man's face wearing sunglasses with a grim, blank expression, captioned "He was one day from retirement" — framing the slain turkey as a doomed cop-movie character.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.