humpty-dumpty
Original: humpty-dumpty on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption): Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Panel 2 (caption): Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
Panel 3 (caption): All the king's horses, and all the king's men
Panel 4 (caption): Felt the sentient egg should never have been.
Knight (gray-haired, somber): We did right to push it. We did what was RIGHT.
Other knight (off to the side): We are safe now.
Votey:
Caption text (white scrawled letters): I... LIIIIVE...
A crude, distorted white-line drawing of a cracked, grimacing face on a black background — the broken egg, still alive.
Panel 2 (caption): Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
Panel 3 (caption): All the king's horses, and all the king's men
Panel 4 (caption): Felt the sentient egg should never have been.
Knight (gray-haired, somber): We did right to push it. We did what was RIGHT.
Other knight (off to the side): We are safe now.
Votey:
Caption text (white scrawled letters): I... LIIIIVE...
A crude, distorted white-line drawing of a cracked, grimacing face on a black background — the broken egg, still alive.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic retelling the Humpty Dumpty rhyme darkly. Panel 1, captioned 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,' shows an egg sitting atop a brick wall. Panel 2, captioned 'Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,' shows the egg falling off. Panel 3, captioned 'All the king's horses, and all the king's men,' shows armored knights standing with two horses. Panel 4, captioned 'Felt the sentient egg should never have been,' shows a grim gray-haired knight standing over scattered eggshell fragments in the grass; he says, 'We did right to push it. We did what was RIGHT,' while another knight reassures, 'We are safe now' — revealing the knights deliberately pushed a self-aware Humpty to his death. The votey (bonus panel) shows a creepy, scribbled white-line face of the cracked egg on a black background, captioned 'I... LIIIIVE...' — implying the broken egg is still horrifyingly alive.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.