pocket-2
Original: pocket-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man in a red garment (brown hair) addresses an apothecary across a counter, holding a small vial.
Man in red: "Thy tincture of virgin's hair was good physick, sirrah, but ye price hath trebled since Martinmas last!"
The apothecary (bearded, wearing a fur hat and a yellow-spiked collar): "Zounds! 'Tis no fault of mine, but ye cost of production!"
Caption (below panel): It later turned out that Dederic was in the pocket of Big Apothecary.
Votey:
(handwritten caption) Later, he lobbies to keep generic tincture of virgin's hair off the market.
A man in a red garment (brown hair) addresses an apothecary across a counter, holding a small vial.
Man in red: "Thy tincture of virgin's hair was good physick, sirrah, but ye price hath trebled since Martinmas last!"
The apothecary (bearded, wearing a fur hat and a yellow-spiked collar): "Zounds! 'Tis no fault of mine, but ye cost of production!"
Caption (below panel): It later turned out that Dederic was in the pocket of Big Apothecary.
Votey:
(handwritten caption) Later, he lobbies to keep generic tincture of virgin's hair off the market.
Alt text
A mock-medieval scene. A man with brown hair in a red garment stands at an apothecary counter holding up a small dark vial and complaining to the apothecary: "Thy tincture of virgin's hair was good physick, sirrah, but ye price hath trebled since Martinmas last!" The apothecary, a bearded man in a fur hat and a yellow spiked collar standing before shelves of bottles, protests: "Zounds! 'Tis no fault of mine, but ye cost of production!" A caption reads: "It later turned out that Dederic was in the pocket of Big Apothecary" — framing pharmaceutical price-gouging in period dress. Votey (aftercomic): a plain panel with handwritten text: "Later, he lobbies to keep generic tincture of virgin's hair off the market," extending the gag to lobbying against generic drugs.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.