a-frankenstein
Original: a-frankenstein on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with dark skin and dark hair: "I'm going to be a Frankenstein for Halloween."
Woman with red/orange hair: "Nope. It's Frankenstein's MONSTER, not 'a Frankenstein.'"
Panel 2:
Woman with dark skin: "Actually, although the monster never gets a name in the book, his 'father' is named Frankenstein, and he once refers to himself as the 'Adam of your labours.'"
Panel 3:
Woman with dark skin: "Thus you could reasonably call him 'Adam Frankenstein' or by truncating his first name 'A. Frankenstein.'"
Panel 4:
Woman with red/orange hair: "You picked your costume AFTER thinking up that argument, didn't you?"
Panel 5 (silhouettes):
Woman with red/orange hair: "Would you say it's a trick or a treat?"
Votey:
Handwritten text: "Fuck timeliness."
—Zach Weinersmith
Woman with dark skin and dark hair: "I'm going to be a Frankenstein for Halloween."
Woman with red/orange hair: "Nope. It's Frankenstein's MONSTER, not 'a Frankenstein.'"
Panel 2:
Woman with dark skin: "Actually, although the monster never gets a name in the book, his 'father' is named Frankenstein, and he once refers to himself as the 'Adam of your labours.'"
Panel 3:
Woman with dark skin: "Thus you could reasonably call him 'Adam Frankenstein' or by truncating his first name 'A. Frankenstein.'"
Panel 4:
Woman with red/orange hair: "You picked your costume AFTER thinking up that argument, didn't you?"
Panel 5 (silhouettes):
Woman with red/orange hair: "Would you say it's a trick or a treat?"
Votey:
Handwritten text: "Fuck timeliness."
—Zach Weinersmith
Alt text
A five-panel comic. A dark-haired woman tells a red-haired woman she's going to be "a Frankenstein" for Halloween. The red-haired woman corrects her: it's Frankenstein's MONSTER, not 'a Frankenstein.' The dark-haired woman counters with a detailed literary argument: although the monster is never named in the book, his creator is named Frankenstein and the monster calls himself the 'Adam of your labours,' so one could reasonably call him 'Adam Frankenstein' or, truncating the first name, 'A. Frankenstein.' The red-haired woman, suspicious, says "You picked your costume AFTER thinking up that argument, didn't you?" In the final panel, shown as silhouettes, the red-haired woman asks "Would you say it's a trick or a treat?" Votey (aftercomic): handwritten text on a blank panel reading "Fuck timeliness. —Zach Weinersmith."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.