whispers
Original: whispers on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A young couple (a man with reddish hair and a woman) tour an old house, accompanied by an elderly woman (the realtor/widow). The man says: "You hear whispers in the night? Yes, of course. This is where THE MASSACRE HAPPENED."
Panel 2 (caption box over a silhouette of figures walking, with a doorway): "40 men of the village, all fathers, were lured here by the old widow."
Panel 3 (caption box over an image of several middle-aged men in glasses): "They were in the crawlspace when she sealed it off and began pumping in furnace gas until the entire group asphyxiated." A small sound effect near one man reads "CHK".
Panel 4 (caption box over the silhouetted line of men): "It is said the ghosts of those dads wander there even still, bemoaning their sorry state."
Panel 5: The woman, looking thoughtful: "That explains so much."
Panel 6: A banner reads "EVERY NIGHT..." Below, the couple lies in bed in a dark bedroom. Ghostly dad voices drift up from below in speech bubbles:
- "Gas leak down here..."
- "Cooling bill will be off the charts..."
- "Sooty walls. That's gonna murder your re-sell value..."
Votey:
A dark, stylized panel. A speech bubble rises from below reading: "you could've had a nicer place if you'd got a real degree..."
Panel 2 (caption box over a silhouette of figures walking, with a doorway): "40 men of the village, all fathers, were lured here by the old widow."
Panel 3 (caption box over an image of several middle-aged men in glasses): "They were in the crawlspace when she sealed it off and began pumping in furnace gas until the entire group asphyxiated." A small sound effect near one man reads "CHK".
Panel 4 (caption box over the silhouetted line of men): "It is said the ghosts of those dads wander there even still, bemoaning their sorry state."
Panel 5: The woman, looking thoughtful: "That explains so much."
Panel 6: A banner reads "EVERY NIGHT..." Below, the couple lies in bed in a dark bedroom. Ghostly dad voices drift up from below in speech bubbles:
- "Gas leak down here..."
- "Cooling bill will be off the charts..."
- "Sooty walls. That's gonna murder your re-sell value..."
Votey:
A dark, stylized panel. A speech bubble rises from below reading: "you could've had a nicer place if you'd got a real degree..."
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A young couple tours an old house with an elderly realtor who explains, "You hear whispers in the night? Yes, of course. This is where the massacre happened." Caption boxes over silhouettes and images of middle-aged men in glasses tell the backstory: "40 men of the village, all fathers, were lured here by the old widow," sealed in the crawlspace and asphyxiated with furnace gas, and now their ghosts "wander there even still, bemoaning their sorry state." The woman replies, "That explains so much." A banner reads "Every night..." and the couple lies in bed while ghostly dad voices float up from below: "Gas leak down here...", "Cooling bill will be off the charts...", and "Sooty walls. That's gonna murder your re-sell value..." The joke: the murdered dads haunt the house not with horror but with mundane dad-style complaints about utility bills and home resale value. Votey aftercomic: a dark panel where a ghost voice rises saying, "you could've had a nicer place if you'd got a real degree..."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.