a-better-family
Original: a-better-family on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Elderly man (lying in a hospital/deathbed): Before I die.. I want you to know.. I couldn't have asked for a better family.
Panel 2:
Elderly man (continuing): 'Cause that doesn't even make sense.
Panel 3:
Elderly man: I mean, who would you ask?
(A red-haired woman and a mustached man in a suit stand at the bedside, looking unimpressed.)
Panel 4:
Elderly man: Is there such a person?
Red-haired woman: Eat shit, dad.
Votey:
Red-haired woman (off-panel speech bubble, addressing the man whose face fills the panel): No changing your will.
Elderly man (lying in a hospital/deathbed): Before I die.. I want you to know.. I couldn't have asked for a better family.
Panel 2:
Elderly man (continuing): 'Cause that doesn't even make sense.
Panel 3:
Elderly man: I mean, who would you ask?
(A red-haired woman and a mustached man in a suit stand at the bedside, looking unimpressed.)
Panel 4:
Elderly man: Is there such a person?
Red-haired woman: Eat shit, dad.
Votey:
Red-haired woman (off-panel speech bubble, addressing the man whose face fills the panel): No changing your will.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. An elderly bald man with glasses lies in a hospital bed. Panel 1: he says, 'Before I die.. I want you to know.. I couldn't have asked for a better family.' Panel 2 (close-up on his face): 'Cause that doesn't even make sense.' Panel 3: a red-haired woman and a mustached man in a suit stand at his bedside looking annoyed as he continues, 'I mean, who would you ask?' Panel 4: he spreads his hands and asks, 'Is there such a person?' The red-haired woman flatly replies, 'Eat shit, dad.' The joke: he turns a heartfelt deathbed sentiment into a pedantic literal quibble, and his daughter is fed up. Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the elderly man's face while the woman's off-panel speech bubble adds, 'No changing your will.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.