ghost-ship
Original: ghost-ship on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Old bearded sailor with an eyepatch and cap: "Avast! The White Lady of the Atlantic!"
Young man in a yellow turtleneck: "Huh?"
Panel 2 (a ghostly sailing ship appears over the water before them):
Old sailor: "'Tis a ghost ship. They say she'll sail forever, cruising 'twixt Liverpool town and the coast of Halifax, where the devil's own squall damned her to Neptune's cold bosom!"
Panel 3:
Young man: "Forever?"
Old sailor: "And ever."
Panel 4:
Young man (awed): "My god."
Panel 5 (a newspaper / headline graphic, showing a small image of the cloaked ghostly figure):
Headline: "ZERO-EMISSIONS TRANSPORT METHOD DISCOVERED"
Caption: "Customs officials worry cargo will be 'cursed I tells ye.'"
Votey:
A smiling man holds up a smartphone.
Man: "This phone was 50% off and the only catch is that it screams all night."
Old bearded sailor with an eyepatch and cap: "Avast! The White Lady of the Atlantic!"
Young man in a yellow turtleneck: "Huh?"
Panel 2 (a ghostly sailing ship appears over the water before them):
Old sailor: "'Tis a ghost ship. They say she'll sail forever, cruising 'twixt Liverpool town and the coast of Halifax, where the devil's own squall damned her to Neptune's cold bosom!"
Panel 3:
Young man: "Forever?"
Old sailor: "And ever."
Panel 4:
Young man (awed): "My god."
Panel 5 (a newspaper / headline graphic, showing a small image of the cloaked ghostly figure):
Headline: "ZERO-EMISSIONS TRANSPORT METHOD DISCOVERED"
Caption: "Customs officials worry cargo will be 'cursed I tells ye.'"
Votey:
A smiling man holds up a smartphone.
Man: "This phone was 50% off and the only catch is that it screams all night."
Alt text
A four-panel comic on a dark ocean at night. An old bearded sailor with an eyepatch and cap dramatically tells a young man in a yellow turtleneck, "Avast! The White Lady of the Atlantic!" The young man says "Huh?" A glowing, translucent ghost sailing ship appears over the water; the sailor explains it's a ghost ship doomed to sail forever between Liverpool and Halifax, damned to "Neptune's cold bosom." The young man asks "Forever?" / "And ever." / "My god." The final panel is a mock newspaper graphic with the headline "ZERO-EMISSIONS TRANSPORT METHOD DISCOVERED" and a caption that customs officials worry the cargo will be "cursed I tells ye" — reframing the cursed eternal voyage as a green shipping breakthrough. Votey: a smiling man holds up a smartphone and says, "This phone was 50% off and the only catch is that it screams all night."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.