ducklings
Original: ducklings on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A homely gray bird with a long beak stands on a beach.
Narration: ONCE, THERE WAS AN UGLY DUCKLING.
Panel 2: Three yellow ducklings laugh at the gray bird, who looks on.
Narration: ALL THE OTHER DUCKLINGS LAUGHED AT HIM.
Panel 3: Several silhouetted birds on the water.
Narration: LATER, IT TURNED OUT THE DUCKLING WAS A LOST MEMBER OF THE MASTER RACE KNOWN AS "SWANS."
Gray bird: A FOUNDLING! LIVING AMIDST THESE SCUM!
Panel 4: The yellow ducks bow before a white swan.
Narration: THE OTHER DUCKS BOWED BEFORE THEIR NATURAL OVERLORD.
Ducks: FORGIVE US!
Duck: WE WERE FOOLS!
Panel 5: The swan rests serenely against a sunburst background.
Narration: THIS IS GOOD. THIS IS AS IT SHOULD BE.
Swan (thinking): ...
Panel 6: A pink flamingo reads the book to a small figure.
Flamingo (reading): GRANDPA, THESE OLD STORIES ARE REALLY OFFENSIVE.
Small figure: GOD, I HATE YOUR GENERATION.
Narration: ONCE, THERE WAS AN UGLY DUCKLING.
Panel 2: Three yellow ducklings laugh at the gray bird, who looks on.
Narration: ALL THE OTHER DUCKLINGS LAUGHED AT HIM.
Panel 3: Several silhouetted birds on the water.
Narration: LATER, IT TURNED OUT THE DUCKLING WAS A LOST MEMBER OF THE MASTER RACE KNOWN AS "SWANS."
Gray bird: A FOUNDLING! LIVING AMIDST THESE SCUM!
Panel 4: The yellow ducks bow before a white swan.
Narration: THE OTHER DUCKS BOWED BEFORE THEIR NATURAL OVERLORD.
Ducks: FORGIVE US!
Duck: WE WERE FOOLS!
Panel 5: The swan rests serenely against a sunburst background.
Narration: THIS IS GOOD. THIS IS AS IT SHOULD BE.
Swan (thinking): ...
Panel 6: A pink flamingo reads the book to a small figure.
Flamingo (reading): GRANDPA, THESE OLD STORIES ARE REALLY OFFENSIVE.
Small figure: GOD, I HATE YOUR GENERATION.
Alt text
A six-panel comic retelling "The Ugly Duckling" as a story about a master race. An ugly gray duckling is laughed at by yellow ducklings, then revealed to be a lost member of "the master race known as Swans," sneering "A foundling! Living amidst these scum!" The ducks bow before the white swan, begging "Forgive us! We were fools!" The swan reclines smugly against a sunburst: "This is good. This is as it should be." In the final panel, a pink flamingo is reading this very book aloud and remarks, "Grandpa, these old stories are really offensive," to which an unseen grandpa replies, "God, I hate your generation." Votey: The grandpa, drawn as a long-necked bird, doubles down: "Oh yeah? Well if it's 'so racist' how come the members of the master race all like it?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.