shame-2
Original: shame-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Setting: A colonial Puritan village. Characters wear Puritan/Pilgrim-style clothing (black hats, white collars).
Panel 1: A group of Puritan villagers stands together near a lake. One villager (speaker, off-panel or among the group) asks the others.
Villager: "For goodness sake, why has Brother David become so popular?"
Panel 2: A red-haired Puritan man speaks indignantly to a stern-looking Puritan man in a tall black hat.
Red-haired man: "'Tis beyond good sense! Since his public shaming he should be shunned by the community!"
Panel 3: The stern Puritan man in the tall hat replies, looking thoughtful.
Stern man: "Another public shaming ought to show him!"
Panel 4: Caption banner reads "AND SO..." Scene shows a public pillory/stocks. A smiling blond man (Brother David) is locked into the wooden stocks, looking pleased. A sign with a large red upward-pointing arrow is propped against the pillory platform, pointing up toward him. The sign reads "CUNNILINGUS". The red-haired man and the stern Puritan man stand to the left, watching.
Votey: A hand-drawn sign with a wobbly border. Text reads: "THESE SIGNS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE IN THE SMBC STORE FOR JUST $400 PER UNIT."
Panel 1: A group of Puritan villagers stands together near a lake. One villager (speaker, off-panel or among the group) asks the others.
Villager: "For goodness sake, why has Brother David become so popular?"
Panel 2: A red-haired Puritan man speaks indignantly to a stern-looking Puritan man in a tall black hat.
Red-haired man: "'Tis beyond good sense! Since his public shaming he should be shunned by the community!"
Panel 3: The stern Puritan man in the tall hat replies, looking thoughtful.
Stern man: "Another public shaming ought to show him!"
Panel 4: Caption banner reads "AND SO..." Scene shows a public pillory/stocks. A smiling blond man (Brother David) is locked into the wooden stocks, looking pleased. A sign with a large red upward-pointing arrow is propped against the pillory platform, pointing up toward him. The sign reads "CUNNILINGUS". The red-haired man and the stern Puritan man stand to the left, watching.
Votey: A hand-drawn sign with a wobbly border. Text reads: "THESE SIGNS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE IN THE SMBC STORE FOR JUST $400 PER UNIT."
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic set in a Puritan colonial village; the characters wear black hats and white collars. Panel 1: a cluster of Puritan villagers by a lake; one asks, "For goodness sake, why has Brother David become so popular?" Panel 2: an indignant red-haired Puritan man tells a stern man in a tall black hat, "'Tis beyond good sense! Since his public shaming he should be shunned by the community!" Panel 3: the stern man replies thoughtfully, "Another public shaming ought to show him!" Panel 4, captioned "AND SO...": a smiling blond man is locked in wooden public stocks, looking delighted rather than ashamed. Leaning against the platform is a sign with a big red arrow pointing up at him, labeled "CUNNILINGUS" — the joke being that this public 'shaming' actually advertises and boosts his popularity. Votey (aftercomic): a wobbly hand-drawn sign reading "THESE SIGNS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE IN THE SMBC STORE FOR JUST $400 PER UNIT."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.