class-3
Original: class-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (a woman at a castle tower window, speaking to a blond man below):
Woman: But I love you!
Man: I'm sorry it can never be. You're of noble birth, and I but a commoner.
Panel 2:
Man: What about that mysterious letter? The one left with you when you were given to the orphanage?
Man: I'll find out. By god I'll find out. I'll find out.
Panel 3 (caption): Several years of questing later...
Man (to the woman): You're a prince?!
Panel 4:
Man: Great news! It turns out we are of the same social class!
Woman: No!
Panel 5:
Man: I ended up checking YOUR genealogy and it turns out ALL of your antecedents were thieves and drunks!
Woman: They seized power two generations ago and created a whole fake family tree to justify their rulership!
Panel 6:
Man: You're proletarian filth! Just like me, ESMERELDA! Just like me! We can be together after all!
(The woman recoils in the tower window.)
Panel 7 (caption): And so...
A hooded/masked executioner stands at a block. A speech bubble reads: WELP.
Votey:
Text at top: CUT ME A BREAK!
A man (drawn in profile) is depicted being yanked or attacked; the votey shows the blond man's reaction face in a sketchy, distressed style.
Woman: But I love you!
Man: I'm sorry it can never be. You're of noble birth, and I but a commoner.
Panel 2:
Man: What about that mysterious letter? The one left with you when you were given to the orphanage?
Man: I'll find out. By god I'll find out. I'll find out.
Panel 3 (caption): Several years of questing later...
Man (to the woman): You're a prince?!
Panel 4:
Man: Great news! It turns out we are of the same social class!
Woman: No!
Panel 5:
Man: I ended up checking YOUR genealogy and it turns out ALL of your antecedents were thieves and drunks!
Woman: They seized power two generations ago and created a whole fake family tree to justify their rulership!
Panel 6:
Man: You're proletarian filth! Just like me, ESMERELDA! Just like me! We can be together after all!
(The woman recoils in the tower window.)
Panel 7 (caption): And so...
A hooded/masked executioner stands at a block. A speech bubble reads: WELP.
Votey:
Text at top: CUT ME A BREAK!
A man (drawn in profile) is depicted being yanked or attacked; the votey shows the blond man's reaction face in a sketchy, distressed style.
Alt text
A seven-panel SMBC comic. A woman leans out a castle tower window above a blond commoner man. She says "But I love you!" He replies that it can never be because she is of noble birth and he is but a commoner. He vows to uncover the secret of a mysterious letter left with him at the orphanage. Caption: "Several years of questing later..." He returns and exclaims "You're a prince?!" then "Great news! It turns out we are of the same social class!" She cries "No!" He explains he checked HER genealogy and found all her ancestors were thieves and drunks; she reveals her family seized power two generations ago and faked a noble family tree. Triumphant, he declares "You're proletarian filth! Just like me, ESMERELDA! We can be together after all!" while she recoils in horror. Final caption "And so..." shows a hooded executioner standing at a chopping block with a speech bubble reading "WELP" — implying the noble-born ruse exposed leads to her family's execution rather than a happy ending. Votey: a sketchy distressed drawing of a man's face being yanked, captioned "CUT ME A BREAK!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.