tower
Original: tower on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Goblin (to a blonde princess): AND NOW PRINCESS, YOU WILL LIVE IN THE TOWER FOR ALL TIME!
Panel 2:
Princess: IS THERE FOOD?
Panel 3:
Princess: IS THERE A BATHROOM?
Panel 4:
Goblin: BREAD AND WATER!
Panel 5:
Goblin: A HOLE IN THE FLOOR!
Panel 6:
Princess (holding up a smartphone): DOES THE TOWER HAVE ELECTRICITY?
Panel 7:
Goblin: I... YEAH, I THINK SO.
Panel 8:
Princess: GOOD PHONE RECEPTION?
Panel 9:
Goblin: SURE?
Panel 10 (the princess looks content/pleased, eyes closed and smiling):
[no dialogue]
Final panel — caption banner: EVER AFTER...
A knight with a red cape stands at the base of the tall tower, his horse behind him.
Knight (calling up to the tower): PRINCESS! I'VE COME TO TAKE YOU AWAY FROM THIS!
Princess (from inside the tower): FUCK OFF!
Votey:
A close-up of a person's face (the knight) looking up, with a speech bubble: Can I come up?
Goblin (to a blonde princess): AND NOW PRINCESS, YOU WILL LIVE IN THE TOWER FOR ALL TIME!
Panel 2:
Princess: IS THERE FOOD?
Panel 3:
Princess: IS THERE A BATHROOM?
Panel 4:
Goblin: BREAD AND WATER!
Panel 5:
Goblin: A HOLE IN THE FLOOR!
Panel 6:
Princess (holding up a smartphone): DOES THE TOWER HAVE ELECTRICITY?
Panel 7:
Goblin: I... YEAH, I THINK SO.
Panel 8:
Princess: GOOD PHONE RECEPTION?
Panel 9:
Goblin: SURE?
Panel 10 (the princess looks content/pleased, eyes closed and smiling):
[no dialogue]
Final panel — caption banner: EVER AFTER...
A knight with a red cape stands at the base of the tall tower, his horse behind him.
Knight (calling up to the tower): PRINCESS! I'VE COME TO TAKE YOU AWAY FROM THIS!
Princess (from inside the tower): FUCK OFF!
Votey:
A close-up of a person's face (the knight) looking up, with a speech bubble: Can I come up?
Alt text
A ten-panel SMBC comic plus a final wide panel. A green goblin imprisons a blonde princess in a tower, declaring she will live there for all time. Instead of despairing, the princess calmly interrogates the accommodations: Is there food? (Bread and water.) Is there a bathroom? (A hole in the floor.) Then, holding up her smartphone, she asks: Does the tower have electricity? (I... yeah, I think so.) Good phone reception? (Sure?) Satisfied, she closes her eyes and smiles contentedly. The final wide panel, captioned EVER AFTER..., shows a caped knight with his horse arriving at the foot of the tall stone tower. He calls up, 'Princess! I've come to take you away from this!' From inside the tower she shouts back, 'FUCK OFF!' Votey (aftercomic): a hand-drawn close-up of the knight's face looking upward, asking sheepishly in a speech bubble, 'Can I come up?' The joke: solitude with wifi beats rescue.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.