swords
Original: swords on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Two medieval/Viking-looking men with long hair and beards stand together.
First man (with reddish hair and beard, wearing a tunic): "I appreciate that swords are more effective than clubs, but where's that sense of serenity you get from bludgeoning a man to death with a heavy object?"
Second man (with dark hair and beard, hand on chin, considering): "Aye, aye."
Caption below panel: "Shortly before the invention of the claymore."
Votey:
A cartoonist (a man with glasses, drawn in a looser sketch style) sits at a drawing board, hunched over and laughing/crying with delight as he draws. A child stands at the lower left looking up.
Cartoonist: "CORNERING THE CLAYMORE JOKE MARKET, BABY!"
Two medieval/Viking-looking men with long hair and beards stand together.
First man (with reddish hair and beard, wearing a tunic): "I appreciate that swords are more effective than clubs, but where's that sense of serenity you get from bludgeoning a man to death with a heavy object?"
Second man (with dark hair and beard, hand on chin, considering): "Aye, aye."
Caption below panel: "Shortly before the invention of the claymore."
Votey:
A cartoonist (a man with glasses, drawn in a looser sketch style) sits at a drawing board, hunched over and laughing/crying with delight as he draws. A child stands at the lower left looking up.
Cartoonist: "CORNERING THE CLAYMORE JOKE MARKET, BABY!"
Alt text
A single-panel comic showing two medieval Viking-style men with long hair and beards standing together. The man on the left, with reddish hair, says: "I appreciate that swords are more effective than clubs, but where's that sense of serenity you get from bludgeoning a man to death with a heavy object?" The dark-haired man on the right rests a hand on his chin and replies, "Aye, aye." A caption beneath reads: "Shortly before the invention of the claymore." The joke is a pun on "claymore" meaning both the Scottish sword and, implicitly, clubbing/clay. Votey (aftercomic): a loosely sketched cartoonist sits hunched over a drawing board, gleeful, shouting "CORNERING THE CLAYMORE JOKE MARKET, BABY!" while a small child stands nearby looking up at him.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.