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trading-2

Original: trading-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
Manager (handing over a briefcase): WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF HIGH-SPEED TRADING ALGORITHMS! HERE'S YOUR BRIEFCASE.

Panel 2:
New employee (holding the briefcase): ISN'T EVERYTHING DIGITAL NOW?

Panel 3:
Manager: THE BRIEFCASE CONTAINS THE SIGIL OF BOZMODIKLAX THE VILE, DEMON-DUKE OF RUIN.

Panel 4:
New employee: WHOA. DO YOU SUMMON HIM OFTEN?
Manager: SURE, HE'S AN UNPAID INTERN.

Panel 5:
A demon (a ram-skull-headed figure surrounded by flames) holding a coffee pot: MORE COFFEE, GENTLEMEN?

Panel 6:
Manager (angrily): I TOLD YOU, NOT WHILE I'M TALKING!
Demon: SORRY, SIR!

Votey:
The demon (off-panel speech): WHAT AN HONOR TO WORK HERE.

Alt text

A six-panel comic. A smiling manager hands a briefcase to a new employee and says, "Welcome to the world of high-speed trading algorithms! Here's your briefcase." The employee asks, "Isn't everything digital now?" The manager explains, "The briefcase contains the sigil of Bozmodiklax the Vile, demon-duke of ruin." The employee asks, "Whoa. Do you summon him often?" and the manager replies, "Sure, he's an unpaid intern." In the next panel a demon with a ram skull for a head, wreathed in flames, holds a coffee pot and asks, "More coffee, gentlemen?" The manager snaps angrily, "I told you, not while I'm talking!" and the cowering demon says, "Sorry, sir!" In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the ram-skull demon shows it speaking off to one side, earnestly saying, "What an honor to work here."

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.