sword
Original: sword on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A crowd watches a person pull a sword from a stone.
Onlooker: "He pulled the sword from the stone!"
Another onlooker: "We shall crown him rightful king of England!"
Panel 2: A man with brown hair (the sword-puller) responds, arms spread.
Sword-puller: "Really? That's how you're gonna decide who's king of England?"
Sword-puller: "The old way is killing the current king."
Panel 3: A blonde person in the crowd looks on silently, unimpressed.
Panel 4: The sword-puller stands in a field, gesturing.
Sword-puller: "This sword was really loose. Was anyone else even trying to be king?"
Panel 5: A close-up of the blonde person, now shouting.
Blonde person: "No takesies backsies!"
Panel 6: A wide shot of the field. The sword-puller stands at left, the blonde person (now holding a sword at their side) stands at right, facing off across the grassy hill.
Votey:
The blonde person says, in thought or speech: "I'd better implement a rigid class structure enforced by violence."
Onlooker: "He pulled the sword from the stone!"
Another onlooker: "We shall crown him rightful king of England!"
Panel 2: A man with brown hair (the sword-puller) responds, arms spread.
Sword-puller: "Really? That's how you're gonna decide who's king of England?"
Sword-puller: "The old way is killing the current king."
Panel 3: A blonde person in the crowd looks on silently, unimpressed.
Panel 4: The sword-puller stands in a field, gesturing.
Sword-puller: "This sword was really loose. Was anyone else even trying to be king?"
Panel 5: A close-up of the blonde person, now shouting.
Blonde person: "No takesies backsies!"
Panel 6: A wide shot of the field. The sword-puller stands at left, the blonde person (now holding a sword at their side) stands at right, facing off across the grassy hill.
Votey:
The blonde person says, in thought or speech: "I'd better implement a rigid class structure enforced by violence."
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. In panel 1, a crowd cheers as someone pulls a sword from a stone, declaring he should be crowned rightful king of England. In panel 2, the brown-haired sword-puller spreads his arms skeptically and says, "Really? That's how you're gonna decide who's king of England? The old way is killing the current king." Panel 3 shows a blonde onlooker watching silently. In panel 4 the sword-puller, now in a field, complains: "This sword was really loose. Was anyone else even trying to be king?" In panel 5, a close-up of the blonde person shouting, "No takesies backsies!" Panel 6 is a wide shot of the two standing apart across a grassy hill, the blonde person now holding a sword, as if a standoff is brewing. The joke: the legitimacy of pulling a loose sword is mocked, but it's enforced by sheer insistence. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-drawn close-up of the blonde person, sword in hand, with a speech bubble reading, "I'd better implement a rigid class structure enforced by violence."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.