thor
Original: thor on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (long-haired, bearded): Thor, I'm starting to think you're not the god of thunder.
Woman: What?!
Panel 2 (with sound effect "KPOW! BANG! BOOM!"):
Woman: Wow, how come you always cover your mouth when there's a thunderclap?
Man: I don't want my beard singed by countless mortals.
Panel 3:
Woman: Look, I'm willing to play along, but can we please just agree that you're not a god and that this is all just a weird sex thing?
Panel 4 (with sound effect "KPOW! BANG! BOOM!"):
[The man again covers his mouth as the thunder sounds.]
Votey:
Man (close-up, hand covering his mouth): Insisting I am God is one of the "love languages."
Man (long-haired, bearded): Thor, I'm starting to think you're not the god of thunder.
Woman: What?!
Panel 2 (with sound effect "KPOW! BANG! BOOM!"):
Woman: Wow, how come you always cover your mouth when there's a thunderclap?
Man: I don't want my beard singed by countless mortals.
Panel 3:
Woman: Look, I'm willing to play along, but can we please just agree that you're not a god and that this is all just a weird sex thing?
Panel 4 (with sound effect "KPOW! BANG! BOOM!"):
[The man again covers his mouth as the thunder sounds.]
Votey:
Man (close-up, hand covering his mouth): Insisting I am God is one of the "love languages."
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. A long-haired, bearded man insists to a skeptical woman that he is Thor, the god of thunder. In panel 1 she says, 'Thor, I'm starting to think you're not the god of thunder,' and he replies 'What?!' Each time a thunderclap sound effect ('KPOW! BANG! BOOM!') goes off, he conspicuously covers his mouth with his hand. She asks why he always covers his mouth during thunder; he claims he doesn't want his beard singed 'by countless mortals.' She finally proposes they agree he's not a god and that this is 'all just a weird sex thing' — but another thunderclap sounds and he covers his mouth again, implying he is making the thunder noises himself. In the votey aftercomic, a tight close-up shows the man with his hand over his mouth saying, 'Insisting I am God is one of the "love languages."' The joke: he's faking divinity, generating the thunder with his own mouth, and reframing his delusion as a relationship love language.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.