villainy
Original: villainy on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man in white-and-red supervillain costume (dark-skinned, with a small mustache, standing in a lab): "IT'S NOT! I AM NOT AN ARMCHAIR VILLAIN! I AM PUTTING LSD IN THE WATER SUPPLY AS WE SPEAK! I AM OUT HERE AND I AM GETTING THINGS DONE!"
A blond man stands at left listening.
Caption below the panel: Most of the time when people call something pure evil, they're actually talking about applied evil.
Votey:
Close-up of the blond man's face, looking downcast and thoughtful, with a thought/speech line trailing up.
Text: "Why do I bother poisoning anybody?"
Man in white-and-red supervillain costume (dark-skinned, with a small mustache, standing in a lab): "IT'S NOT! I AM NOT AN ARMCHAIR VILLAIN! I AM PUTTING LSD IN THE WATER SUPPLY AS WE SPEAK! I AM OUT HERE AND I AM GETTING THINGS DONE!"
A blond man stands at left listening.
Caption below the panel: Most of the time when people call something pure evil, they're actually talking about applied evil.
Votey:
Close-up of the blond man's face, looking downcast and thoughtful, with a thought/speech line trailing up.
Text: "Why do I bother poisoning anybody?"
Alt text
A single-panel comic. A dark-skinned man wearing a white-and-red supervillain costume stands in a lab, gesturing emphatically as he protests to a blond man at left: "It's not! I am not an armchair villain! I am putting LSD in the water supply as we speak! I am out here and I am getting things done!" A caption beneath reads: "Most of the time when people call something pure evil, they're actually talking about applied evil" -- a pun on pure vs. applied science. Votey (bonus panel): an extreme close-up of the blond man's face, now looking glum and deflated, thinking, "Why do I bother poisoning anybody?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.