cupid39s-arrow
Original: cupid39s-arrow on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: Cupid, a winged cherub with blonde flame-like hair, draws back his bow with a heart-tipped arrow, smiling mischievously.
Panel 2: A grassy outdoor scene. A blond man in a suit walks toward a woman with dark hair and glasses who stands at a podium/lectern typing on a laptop.
Panel 3 (close-up): The dark-haired woman in glasses looks down, focused, as Cupid's heart-tipped arrow flies in from the left toward her.
Panel 4: The woman sits typing at a laptop, absorbed.
Sound effect: tap tap tap tap...
Panel 5: Cupid recoils in shock, mouth open.
Cupid: WAIT! WAIT! SHIT!
Panel 6: The woman, now with hearts floating above her head and an arrow visibly stuck/passed near her, blushes with wide eyes — but her loving gaze is directed at her laptop.
Panel 7: The woman gazes lovingly at her laptop, which displays a website. Cupid hovers behind her, alarmed, his bow now empty.
Laptop screen text: KangarooCostumes.com (a fetish/costume website)
Panel 8 (wide bottom panel): A heavenly cloudscape. Zeus, a bearded man in a toga holding a lightning bolt, stands at left. Tiny Cupid floats in the middle. A mountain peak rises at right.
Label: LATER...
Cupid: HEY, CUPID. HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT CONSTANT CONNECTIVITY HAS RISEN IN TANDEM WITH THE NUMBER OF WEIRD FETISHES?
Zeus ("I HAVE NOT."): I HAVE NOT.
Votey:
A close-up of Cupid (blonde, curly hair) looking sly. A speech bubble points off-panel from the left.
Off-panel voice: Wanna go turn a hot chick into a tree?
Panel 2: A grassy outdoor scene. A blond man in a suit walks toward a woman with dark hair and glasses who stands at a podium/lectern typing on a laptop.
Panel 3 (close-up): The dark-haired woman in glasses looks down, focused, as Cupid's heart-tipped arrow flies in from the left toward her.
Panel 4: The woman sits typing at a laptop, absorbed.
Sound effect: tap tap tap tap...
Panel 5: Cupid recoils in shock, mouth open.
Cupid: WAIT! WAIT! SHIT!
Panel 6: The woman, now with hearts floating above her head and an arrow visibly stuck/passed near her, blushes with wide eyes — but her loving gaze is directed at her laptop.
Panel 7: The woman gazes lovingly at her laptop, which displays a website. Cupid hovers behind her, alarmed, his bow now empty.
Laptop screen text: KangarooCostumes.com (a fetish/costume website)
Panel 8 (wide bottom panel): A heavenly cloudscape. Zeus, a bearded man in a toga holding a lightning bolt, stands at left. Tiny Cupid floats in the middle. A mountain peak rises at right.
Label: LATER...
Cupid: HEY, CUPID. HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT CONSTANT CONNECTIVITY HAS RISEN IN TANDEM WITH THE NUMBER OF WEIRD FETISHES?
Zeus ("I HAVE NOT."): I HAVE NOT.
Votey:
A close-up of Cupid (blonde, curly hair) looking sly. A speech bubble points off-panel from the left.
Off-panel voice: Wanna go turn a hot chick into a tree?
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic. Cupid, a winged blond cherub, takes aim with a heart-tipped arrow. In a grassy outdoor scene, a dark-haired woman in glasses stands at a podium typing on a laptop while a man walks toward her. Cupid fires the arrow at her, but it strikes as she's absorbed in her laptop ("tap tap tap"). Cupid recoils in horror shouting "WAIT! WAIT! SHIT!" Hearts float above the woman's head — but she is gazing lovingly at her laptop screen, which shows the website 'KangarooCostumes.com'; Cupid's arrow has made her fall in love with her device/online fetishes instead of the man. In the final wide panel, set in the clouds, a bearded Zeus holding a lightning bolt stands beside tiny Cupid; the caption reads 'LATER...' Cupid says, 'Hey, Cupid. Have you noticed that constant connectivity has risen in tandem with the number of weird fetishes?' Zeus replies, 'I have not.' Votey aftercomic: a close-up of sly-looking Cupid as an off-panel voice asks, 'Wanna go turn a hot chick into a tree?' — a reference to mythological god-pranks.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.