joyce
Original: joyce on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A cyborg man (half his face is metal with a glowing red robotic eye and a gear-like lens; he wears a bright green/yellow jacket and purple shirt) reads a large open book.
Cyborg man: OH MY GOD. IT'S A PHOTO OF HIM LAUGHING AND MOONING THE READER. HAS THIS BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME?!
Caption (below panel):
January 1, 2358:
the first person to reach the middle of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" makes a startling discovery.
Votey:
A profile view of a person's face, mouth slightly open as if just having spoken.
Person: I still don't feel like continuing.
A cyborg man (half his face is metal with a glowing red robotic eye and a gear-like lens; he wears a bright green/yellow jacket and purple shirt) reads a large open book.
Cyborg man: OH MY GOD. IT'S A PHOTO OF HIM LAUGHING AND MOONING THE READER. HAS THIS BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME?!
Caption (below panel):
January 1, 2358:
the first person to reach the middle of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" makes a startling discovery.
Votey:
A profile view of a person's face, mouth slightly open as if just having spoken.
Person: I still don't feel like continuing.
Alt text
A single-panel comic shows a cyborg man with half a metal face, a glowing red robotic eye, and a gear-shaped lens, wearing a bright green jacket and purple shirt, reading a large open book. He exclaims, "OH MY GOD. IT'S A PHOTO OF HIM LAUGHING AND MOONING THE READER. HAS THIS BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME?!" A caption beneath reads: "January 1, 2358: the first person to reach the middle of James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' makes a startling discovery." In the votey (a small follow-up panel), a person's face is shown in profile, and they flatly add, "I still don't feel like continuing." The joke: even after centuries it takes for someone to finally reach the middle of the notoriously impenetrable novel, and discovering Joyce mocking his readers, the reader still can't be bothered to finish it.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.