hornet
Original: hornet on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A small child stands outside near a house, looking up.
Child: Daddy! A hornet's got into our house!
Panel 2: A bald man with a goatee, looking alarmed, holds out his arm protectively.
Man: Stand back, kids!
Panel 3: Close-up of the man's face, wide-eyed and intense.
Man: BACK!
Panel 4: The child looks confused.
Child: Dad, what--
Panel 5: The man, grim and determined.
Man: It's the hornet's house now.
Panel 6: The man hurries the children back toward a car.
Man: Back into the car!
Panel 7: A car drives away from the house at speed, fleeing.
Man: We must move on.
Votey:
A close-up of the man's face, eyes wide and panicked, looking back.
Man: Shit! He's calling the HOA!
Child: Daddy! A hornet's got into our house!
Panel 2: A bald man with a goatee, looking alarmed, holds out his arm protectively.
Man: Stand back, kids!
Panel 3: Close-up of the man's face, wide-eyed and intense.
Man: BACK!
Panel 4: The child looks confused.
Child: Dad, what--
Panel 5: The man, grim and determined.
Man: It's the hornet's house now.
Panel 6: The man hurries the children back toward a car.
Man: Back into the car!
Panel 7: A car drives away from the house at speed, fleeing.
Man: We must move on.
Votey:
A close-up of the man's face, eyes wide and panicked, looking back.
Man: Shit! He's calling the HOA!
Alt text
A seven-panel SMBC comic. A child outside a house calls up, "Daddy! A hornet's got into our house!" A bald, goateed dad reacts with escalating alarm, throwing out his arm and shouting "Stand back, kids!" and then "BACK!" When the confused child says "Dad, what--", the dad declares gravely, "It's the hornet's house now." He herds the kids back into the car ("Back into the car!") and the family car speeds away from the home as he says "We must move on," abandoning the house to the single hornet. Votey: an extreme close-up of the dad's wide-eyed, panicked face glancing back as he exclaims, "Shit! He's calling the HOA!" -- implying the hornet, now the homeowner, is reporting them.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.