card
Original: card on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Magician (a man in a top hat and bow tie, fanning a deck of cards): PICK A CARD. ANY CARD.
Panel 2:
A woman with long hair: 2 OF CLUBS
Panel 3:
Magician: THANKS TO MAGIC, MANUFACTURING THAT DURABLE CARD WITH LUSTROUS INK COST LESS THAN A SINGLE PENNY TO CREATE!
Panel 4:
Magician (the woman walks off, a single card lying on the ground): EVERYTHING IS MAGIC WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND ECONOMIES OF SCALE!
Votey:
Magician (close-up, looking intense/excited): PHOTO-VOLTAIC PANELS FELL 3% IN PRICE IN A SINGLE QUARTER! ALAKAZAM!
Magician (a man in a top hat and bow tie, fanning a deck of cards): PICK A CARD. ANY CARD.
Panel 2:
A woman with long hair: 2 OF CLUBS
Panel 3:
Magician: THANKS TO MAGIC, MANUFACTURING THAT DURABLE CARD WITH LUSTROUS INK COST LESS THAN A SINGLE PENNY TO CREATE!
Panel 4:
Magician (the woman walks off, a single card lying on the ground): EVERYTHING IS MAGIC WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND ECONOMIES OF SCALE!
Votey:
Magician (close-up, looking intense/excited): PHOTO-VOLTAIC PANELS FELL 3% IN PRICE IN A SINGLE QUARTER! ALAKAZAM!
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: a magician in a top hat and bow tie fans out a deck of cards and says, "Pick a card. Any card." Panel 2: a woman with long hair replies, "2 of clubs." Panel 3: the magician declares, "Thanks to magic, manufacturing that durable card with lustrous ink cost less than a single penny to create!" Panel 4: the woman walks away leaving a card on the floor as the magician proclaims, "Everything is magic when you understand economies of scale!" The joke: mass-production economics, not sleight of hand, is the real "magic." Votey (aftercomic): an extreme close-up of the magician's intense face shouting, "Photo-voltaic panels fell 3% in price in a single quarter! Alakazam!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.