oath
Original: oath on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Judge (off-panel, speech from top): Your honor, is it true that in this country you can swear an oath on any book?
Panel 2:
Man in suit (witness, with reddish/flame-like hair): That's right! It doesn't need to be a bible. It could be a Koran, a legal document, a work of fiction.
Panel 3:
Judge (seated at the bench): Thank goodness we live in a free country.
Man in suit: I ask the jury to strongly consider the death penalty.
Panel 4:
The man holds up a yellow book/sign reading: HOW TO LIE UNDER OATH, RIGHT NOW, USING THIS BOOK IN PARTICULAR
Votey:
(Twist! The inside of the King James Bible is the inside of the King James Bible.)
Judge (off-panel, speech from top): Your honor, is it true that in this country you can swear an oath on any book?
Panel 2:
Man in suit (witness, with reddish/flame-like hair): That's right! It doesn't need to be a bible. It could be a Koran, a legal document, a work of fiction.
Panel 3:
Judge (seated at the bench): Thank goodness we live in a free country.
Man in suit: I ask the jury to strongly consider the death penalty.
Panel 4:
The man holds up a yellow book/sign reading: HOW TO LIE UNDER OATH, RIGHT NOW, USING THIS BOOK IN PARTICULAR
Votey:
(Twist! The inside of the King James Bible is the inside of the King James Bible.)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic in a courtroom. Panel 1: a question floats in from above the witness, a man with reddish flame-like hair in a suit: 'Your honor, is it true that in this country you can swear an oath on any book?' Panel 2: the witness answers, 'That's right! It doesn't need to be a bible. It could be a Koran, a legal document, a work of fiction.' Panel 3: a judge sits at the bench saying 'Thank goodness we live in a free country,' while the witness adds, 'I ask the jury to strongly consider the death penalty.' Panel 4: the witness calmly holds up a yellow book/sign titled 'HOW TO LIE UNDER OATH, RIGHT NOW, USING THIS BOOK IN PARTICULAR' — the joke being he swore his oath on a book that endorses lying under oath. The votey (after-comic) is plain handwritten text reading: '(Twist! The inside of the King James Bible is the inside of the King James Bible.)'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.