last-words
Original: last-words on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Dying father (lying in bed): SON, I HAVEN'T GOT LONG. I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER MY LAST WORDS AND TELL THEM FAITHFULLY TO THOSE WHO ASK.
Son (standing at bedside): OF COURSE, DAD.
Panel 2:
Dying father (eyes wide, intense close-up): HIS LAST WORDS. LITERALLY THAT. LITERALLY THIS SENTENCE.
Panel 3:
Son: UH... HUH. ...OKAY THEN.
Panel 4 (caption: LATER...):
Woman (red hair, facing the son): WHAT WERE HIS LAST WORDS?
Son (gritting teeth, hands raised in frustration): THEY WERE... GODDAMMIT DAD
Votey:
A gravestone with engraved text reading: HERE LIES / HERELIES / THATSMYNAME
Dying father (lying in bed): SON, I HAVEN'T GOT LONG. I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER MY LAST WORDS AND TELL THEM FAITHFULLY TO THOSE WHO ASK.
Son (standing at bedside): OF COURSE, DAD.
Panel 2:
Dying father (eyes wide, intense close-up): HIS LAST WORDS. LITERALLY THAT. LITERALLY THIS SENTENCE.
Panel 3:
Son: UH... HUH. ...OKAY THEN.
Panel 4 (caption: LATER...):
Woman (red hair, facing the son): WHAT WERE HIS LAST WORDS?
Son (gritting teeth, hands raised in frustration): THEY WERE... GODDAMMIT DAD
Votey:
A gravestone with engraved text reading: HERE LIES / HERELIES / THATSMYNAME
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: an old man lies dying in a green bed and tells his son, "Son, I haven't got long. I want you to remember my last words and tell them faithfully to those who ask." The son replies, "Of course, Dad." Panel 2: an intense close-up of the father, eyes bulging, saying, "His last words. Literally that. Literally this sentence." Panel 3: the son, now in a suit, looks bewildered and says, "Uh... huh. ...Okay then." Panel 4, captioned "Later...": a red-haired woman asks, "What were his last words?" The son, gritting his teeth and throwing up his hands in exasperation, answers, "They were... goddammit Dad." The joke: the father's literal instruction to repeat "his last words" traps the son into an awkward, frustrating answer. Votey (bonus panel): a tombstone engraved with "HERE LIES" then below it "HERELIES THATSMYNAME" — the dead father pulling the same literal-wording prank from beyond the grave on his own epitaph.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.