event-horizon
Original: event-horizon on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man in old-fashioned dress with a wide-brimmed hat, mustache and goatee stands outdoors at twilight, speaking. Beside him a woman with reddish hair looks on. A body lies fallen on the ground in the foreground.
Man: "Look, I know it's still dark out, but the geometric center of the sun's disc has precisely eighteen degrees below the horizon and it's not my fault if Jones wasn't ready at the agreed time."
Caption (below panel): Never challenge an astronomer to pistols at dawn.
Votey:
Close-up of a man's face (the fallen man, Jones) looking dismayed.
Speech bubble: "Shoulda studied harder, Jonesey."
A man in old-fashioned dress with a wide-brimmed hat, mustache and goatee stands outdoors at twilight, speaking. Beside him a woman with reddish hair looks on. A body lies fallen on the ground in the foreground.
Man: "Look, I know it's still dark out, but the geometric center of the sun's disc has precisely eighteen degrees below the horizon and it's not my fault if Jones wasn't ready at the agreed time."
Caption (below panel): Never challenge an astronomer to pistols at dawn.
Votey:
Close-up of a man's face (the fallen man, Jones) looking dismayed.
Speech bubble: "Shoulda studied harder, Jonesey."
Alt text
A period-dress duel scene at twilight. A mustachioed man in a wide-brimmed hat stands with a red-haired woman beside him, gesturing over a body sprawled on the ground. He says: "Look, I know it's still dark out, but the geometric center of the sun's disc has precisely eighteen degrees below the horizon and it's not my fault if Jones wasn't ready at the agreed time." A caption reads: "Never challenge an astronomer to pistols at dawn." The joke: the astronomer defines "dawn" by the technical definition of astronomical twilight to justify shooting his opponent before the man was ready. Votey aftercomic: a close-up of the dismayed fallen man's face with a speech bubble reading "Shoulda studied harder, Jonesey."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.