the-magician
Original: the-magician on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman: Did you hear about that magician who put himself in a cage made of ice for three days without any food or water?
Panel 2:
Man with flame-like hair: Wait, what? That's not magic. That's just suffering. Does that really qualify him as a magician?
Panel 3:
Woman: I guess so. Why?
Panel 4:
Man with flame-like hair: I have an AMAZING idea.
Panel 5 (newspaper headline):
MAGICIAN TO SPEND 40 YEARS IN DREARY CUBICLE JOB
"Impossible," say psychologists.
Votey:
A mock magazine/poster cover in ornate lettering reads: The Great Ennuini
(Beneath, a portrait of a gaunt, weary-looking man's face.)
Woman: Did you hear about that magician who put himself in a cage made of ice for three days without any food or water?
Panel 2:
Man with flame-like hair: Wait, what? That's not magic. That's just suffering. Does that really qualify him as a magician?
Panel 3:
Woman: I guess so. Why?
Panel 4:
Man with flame-like hair: I have an AMAZING idea.
Panel 5 (newspaper headline):
MAGICIAN TO SPEND 40 YEARS IN DREARY CUBICLE JOB
"Impossible," say psychologists.
Votey:
A mock magazine/poster cover in ornate lettering reads: The Great Ennuini
(Beneath, a portrait of a gaunt, weary-looking man's face.)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A woman tells a man, "Did you hear about that magician who put himself in a cage made of ice for three days without any food or water?" Panel 2: The man, who has spiky flame-like red hair, replies skeptically, "Wait, what? That's not magic. That's just suffering. Does that really qualify him as a magician?" Panel 3: The woman answers, "I guess so. Why?" Panel 4: The man grins and says, "I have an AMAZING idea." Final panel: A newspaper with the headline "MAGICIAN TO SPEND 40 YEARS IN DREARY CUBICLE JOB," with a small photo of a man in a suit and a subheading reading "'Impossible,' say psychologists." The joke: enduring the soul-crushing tedium of decades in a cubicle is reframed as an even greater feat of endurance-magic than freezing in ice. Votey (aftercomic): A faux ornate poster reading "The Great Ennuini" (a pun on "ennui") above the drawn face of a gaunt, exhausted-looking man, styled like a stage-magician's promotional portrait.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.