wishes-3
Original: wishes-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (red-haired, sitting): A wish?! Oh, I've always wanted to fly like a bird, soaring over the hills...
Panel 2:
Man: Why, up there I'd leave my worries behind like old saddlebags. Goodbye rent, goodbye alarm clock and angry boss. Goodbye back taxes.
Panel 3:
Man: Goodbye child support, goodbye parole officer.
(A green genie/troll-like figure emerging from a puff of smoke listens with a souring expression.)
Panel 4:
Man: Goodbye state-assigned attorney, goodbye public indecency laws, goodbye ankle bracelet, goodbye... Hey!
(The green figure has turned away and is leaving, raising a finger.)
Votey:
The green genie/troll figure, alone, says: I'm gonna go find someone normal who just wants his enemies murdered...
Man (red-haired, sitting): A wish?! Oh, I've always wanted to fly like a bird, soaring over the hills...
Panel 2:
Man: Why, up there I'd leave my worries behind like old saddlebags. Goodbye rent, goodbye alarm clock and angry boss. Goodbye back taxes.
Panel 3:
Man: Goodbye child support, goodbye parole officer.
(A green genie/troll-like figure emerging from a puff of smoke listens with a souring expression.)
Panel 4:
Man: Goodbye state-assigned attorney, goodbye public indecency laws, goodbye ankle bracelet, goodbye... Hey!
(The green figure has turned away and is leaving, raising a finger.)
Votey:
The green genie/troll figure, alone, says: I'm gonna go find someone normal who just wants his enemies murdered...
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A green genie-like figure rising from a cloud of smoke has granted a red-haired man a wish. The man, delighted, says he's always wanted to fly like a bird, soaring over the hills, leaving his worries behind 'like old saddlebags.' As he keeps talking, his list of worries he'd escape grows increasingly incriminating: goodbye rent and back taxes, then goodbye child support and parole officer, then goodbye state-assigned attorney, public indecency laws, and ankle bracelet. By the final panel the genie has turned its back in disgust and is leaving, and the man cries 'Hey!' Votey (aftercomic): the genie, alone, says, 'I'm gonna go find someone normal who just wants his enemies murdered...' The joke is that the genie finds the man's mounting petty criminality more off-putting than someone simply wanting murder.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.