good-luck
Original: good-luck on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with dark hair and beard: Did you know that the ancient Romans used phallus drawings to mean "good luck"?
Woman with glasses: That's... that's weirdly nice?
Panel 2 (caption: 2000 YEARS AGO...):
Two young men (toga-clad) to a third, sleeping man whose face is now covered in penis drawings: We drew dongs all over your face while you were asleep!
Panel 3:
The man with the drawn-on face (touched, near tears): Gosh... thanks guys. I really hope we stay friends after high school.
Votey:
Close-up of the same man's face, still covered in the phallus drawings, looking emotional.
Man: I'll never wash my face again.
Man with dark hair and beard: Did you know that the ancient Romans used phallus drawings to mean "good luck"?
Woman with glasses: That's... that's weirdly nice?
Panel 2 (caption: 2000 YEARS AGO...):
Two young men (toga-clad) to a third, sleeping man whose face is now covered in penis drawings: We drew dongs all over your face while you were asleep!
Panel 3:
The man with the drawn-on face (touched, near tears): Gosh... thanks guys. I really hope we stay friends after high school.
Votey:
Close-up of the same man's face, still covered in the phallus drawings, looking emotional.
Man: I'll never wash my face again.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a bearded man tells a bespectacled woman, "Did you know that the ancient Romans used phallus drawings to mean 'good luck'?" She replies, "That's... that's weirdly nice?" Panel 2, captioned "2000 YEARS AGO...": two grinning toga-clad young men stand over a third young man who is asleep with crude penis drawings scrawled all over his face; they say, "We drew dongs all over your face while you were asleep!" Panel 3: the man with the drawn-on face, now awake and emotional with tears welling, says, "Gosh... thanks guys. I really hope we stay friends after high school." The joke: in this version of history a classic cruel prank reads as a heartfelt gesture of good luck and friendship. Votey (bonus panel): a close-up of the same dong-covered face, still emotional, saying, "I'll never wash my face again."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.