photoshop
Original: photoshop on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Bearded man (ancient, robed): PUT OUT YOUR HAND!
Bearded man: NOBODY BUYS A LEGAL COPY OF PHOTOSHOP! NOBODY!
Bearded man: PUT OUT YOUR HAND OR YOU WILL LOSE BOTH!
The bearded man menacingly confronts a frightened woman, who stares back in horror.
Caption (below panel): The Code of Hammurabi really cut down on IP theft.
Votey:
The frightened woman, looking dejected: GUESS I'LL QUIT COMICS AND GET RICH DOING REAL ESTATE DEALS, DAMMIT.
Bearded man (ancient, robed): PUT OUT YOUR HAND!
Bearded man: NOBODY BUYS A LEGAL COPY OF PHOTOSHOP! NOBODY!
Bearded man: PUT OUT YOUR HAND OR YOU WILL LOSE BOTH!
The bearded man menacingly confronts a frightened woman, who stares back in horror.
Caption (below panel): The Code of Hammurabi really cut down on IP theft.
Votey:
The frightened woman, looking dejected: GUESS I'LL QUIT COMICS AND GET RICH DOING REAL ESTATE DEALS, DAMMIT.
Alt text
Two-panel comic. In the main panel, an angry ancient bearded man in a robe (evoking Hammurabi) points and shouts at a terrified woman: "PUT OUT YOUR HAND! NOBODY BUYS A LEGAL COPY OF PHOTOSHOP! NOBODY! PUT OUT YOUR HAND OR YOU WILL LOSE BOTH!" The woman recoils in horror. A caption reads: "The Code of Hammurabi really cut down on IP theft." The joke imagines Hammurabi's harsh hand-amputation punishments applied to modern software piracy. In the votey (aftercomic), the same dejected woman slumps over a table and mutters, "GUESS I'LL QUIT COMICS AND GET RICH DOING REAL ESTATE DEALS, DAMMIT."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.