royalty
Original: royalty on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: Outside a medieval timber-framed house. A bearded peasant man calls out toward a tall, featureless dark figure.
Bearded man: SIRE?
Dark figure: HM?
Panel 2: The bearded man addresses the dark hooded silhouette earnestly.
Bearded man: IT'S YOU, MY LIEGE! THOUGH YOU WALK AMONG US AS A COMMONER, I CAN SEE AT ONCE THAT YOU ARE FROM A NOBLE BLOODLINE, KEPT PURE FOR GENERATIONS, UNTAINTED BY OUTSIDERS.
Panel 3: The dark figure replies.
Dark figure: HM?
Panel 4: The dark figure is revealed to be a person whose face has the exaggerated, elongated, in-bred features of the "Habsburg" / European royalty caricature, with curly reddish hair.
Figure: HOW DID YOU KNOW?
Votey: Ornate blackletter / gothic text reading: TOO SOON?
Bearded man: SIRE?
Dark figure: HM?
Panel 2: The bearded man addresses the dark hooded silhouette earnestly.
Bearded man: IT'S YOU, MY LIEGE! THOUGH YOU WALK AMONG US AS A COMMONER, I CAN SEE AT ONCE THAT YOU ARE FROM A NOBLE BLOODLINE, KEPT PURE FOR GENERATIONS, UNTAINTED BY OUTSIDERS.
Panel 3: The dark figure replies.
Dark figure: HM?
Panel 4: The dark figure is revealed to be a person whose face has the exaggerated, elongated, in-bred features of the "Habsburg" / European royalty caricature, with curly reddish hair.
Figure: HOW DID YOU KNOW?
Votey: Ornate blackletter / gothic text reading: TOO SOON?
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic set in a medieval village outside a timber-framed house. Panel 1: a bearded peasant calls 'Sire?' to a tall, all-black featureless silhouette, which answers 'Hm?'. Panel 2: the peasant says, 'It's you, my liege! Though you walk among us as a commoner, I can see at once that you are from a noble bloodline, kept pure for generations, untainted by outsiders.' Panel 3: the still-shadowed figure replies 'Hm?'. Panel 4: the figure is revealed in the light to have a grotesquely elongated, inbred face caricaturing European inbred royalty (the Habsburg jaw look), with curly red hair, asking 'How did you know?' The joke: the visible sign of a 'pure, untainted bloodline' is the deformity of generations of inbreeding. Votey aftercomic: a single panel with ornate gothic blackletter text reading 'Too soon?'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.