eat-your-vegetables
Original: eat-your-vegetables on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (top):
Man with glasses and mustache (holding a small dish): WOW! IT SOLIDIFIED INTO THE FORM OF STEAMED CAULIFLOWER! WELL, I GUESS YOU'D BETTER EAT IT.
Panel 2 (bottom, labeled "EARLIER..."):
Man with glasses (holding a strange machine/device aimed at the boy): I INVENTED A MACHINE THAT SUCKS YOUR SOUL OUT OF YOUR BODY!
Boy (alarmed): WHAT?!
Votey:
Wordless. A close-up reaction sequence: the boy looks distressed/queasy while the man, smiling, holds the dish out toward him as the machine sits in the foreground. No dialogue.
Man with glasses and mustache (holding a small dish): WOW! IT SOLIDIFIED INTO THE FORM OF STEAMED CAULIFLOWER! WELL, I GUESS YOU'D BETTER EAT IT.
Panel 2 (bottom, labeled "EARLIER..."):
Man with glasses (holding a strange machine/device aimed at the boy): I INVENTED A MACHINE THAT SUCKS YOUR SOUL OUT OF YOUR BODY!
Boy (alarmed): WHAT?!
Votey:
Wordless. A close-up reaction sequence: the boy looks distressed/queasy while the man, smiling, holds the dish out toward him as the machine sits in the foreground. No dialogue.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Top panel: a smiling man with glasses and a mustache holds out a small dish and says, "WOW! IT SOLIDIFIED INTO THE FORM OF STEAMED CAULIFLOWER! WELL, I GUESS YOU'D BETTER EAT IT." Bottom panel, labeled "EARLIER...": the same man points a strange handheld machine at a young boy and declares, "I INVENTED A MACHINE THAT SUCKS YOUR SOUL OUT OF YOUR BODY!" The boy recoils, exclaiming "WHAT?!" The joke: the soul-sucking machine's output happens to take the shape of steamed cauliflower, so the man cheerfully insists the boy eat his own extracted soul like a vegetable. Votey (wordless aftercomic): a close-up of the queasy, distressed boy while the cheerful man holds the dish toward him, the machine in the foreground, driving home the boy's horror at being made to eat it.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.