fast
Original: fast on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man in a flat-brimmed hat speaks to a younger red-haired man as a large dark-cloaked figure looms in the foreground.
Hat man: "That's Tex. They say he's the fastest gun in the West."
Panel 2: The flat-brimmed-hat man continues, the looming figure (Tex) seen from behind.
Hat man: "Faster'n light. Causin' spacetime to loop in on itself, violatin' the natural order o' things, so as effects precede causes!"
Panel 3 (yellow background): A close-up of Tex, a mustachioed man in a cowboy hat, turning his head.
Tex: "You talkin' about me?"
Panel 4: The hat man answers as Tex points at him.
Hat man: "Yeah I'm talkin' about you. So what?"
Tex: "Pistols at 20 paces!"
Panel 5 (red background): Close-up of the hat man, glaring angrily.
Hat man: "When?"
Panel 6: Tex (foreground, in profile) faces the hat man, who now stands holding a bleeding wound in his chest. The red-haired man stands beside him.
Tex: "Yesterday."
Votey: Extreme close-up of the hat man's shocked face, mouth open.
Hat man: "SHIT!"
Hat man: "That's Tex. They say he's the fastest gun in the West."
Panel 2: The flat-brimmed-hat man continues, the looming figure (Tex) seen from behind.
Hat man: "Faster'n light. Causin' spacetime to loop in on itself, violatin' the natural order o' things, so as effects precede causes!"
Panel 3 (yellow background): A close-up of Tex, a mustachioed man in a cowboy hat, turning his head.
Tex: "You talkin' about me?"
Panel 4: The hat man answers as Tex points at him.
Hat man: "Yeah I'm talkin' about you. So what?"
Tex: "Pistols at 20 paces!"
Panel 5 (red background): Close-up of the hat man, glaring angrily.
Hat man: "When?"
Panel 6: Tex (foreground, in profile) faces the hat man, who now stands holding a bleeding wound in his chest. The red-haired man stands beside him.
Tex: "Yesterday."
Votey: Extreme close-up of the hat man's shocked face, mouth open.
Hat man: "SHIT!"
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC western comic. A man in a flat-brimmed hat tells a red-haired companion that the looming stranger is 'Tex,' the fastest gun in the West, so fast he's 'faster'n light,' looping spacetime so that effects precede their causes. Tex, a mustachioed cowboy, turns and asks 'You talkin' about me?' The hat man defiantly says 'Yeah, so what?' Tex challenges him: 'Pistols at 20 paces!' The hat man angrily demands 'When?' In the final panel Tex calmly answers 'Yesterday' — and the hat man is already standing there clutching a bleeding gunshot wound in his chest, having been shot before the duel was even agreed to, because Tex's faster-than-light draw made the effect precede the cause. Votey: an extreme close-up of the hat man's stunned face exclaiming 'SHIT!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.