pandora
Original: pandora on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A figure with long hair warns another person not to open a box. A cloud of words representing escaping evils floats up out of the box.
Warning figure: "DON'T OPEN THE BOX! BAD THINGS WILL COME OUT!"
Escaping words floating out of the box: "God", "Scorn", "Pestilence", "Famine", "evil"
Panel 2: The other figure (who has opened the box) reacts in distress.
Box-opener: "WHAT HAVE I DONE?!"
Panel 3: The long-haired figure reassures them calmly.
Long-haired figure: "OH, DON'T WORRY. THAT'S ABOUT IN LINE WITH EXPECTATIONS. HONESTLY EXCEPT WE WANTED THIS THE LAST THING IN THE BOX."
Panel 4: One final word floats up out of the box.
Text near the box: "BUT"
Final escaping word: "Hope"
Votey:
A close-up of a worried, frowning face in a speech bubble.
Face: "WHO THE HELL INVITED HOPE?!"
Warning figure: "DON'T OPEN THE BOX! BAD THINGS WILL COME OUT!"
Escaping words floating out of the box: "God", "Scorn", "Pestilence", "Famine", "evil"
Panel 2: The other figure (who has opened the box) reacts in distress.
Box-opener: "WHAT HAVE I DONE?!"
Panel 3: The long-haired figure reassures them calmly.
Long-haired figure: "OH, DON'T WORRY. THAT'S ABOUT IN LINE WITH EXPECTATIONS. HONESTLY EXCEPT WE WANTED THIS THE LAST THING IN THE BOX."
Panel 4: One final word floats up out of the box.
Text near the box: "BUT"
Final escaping word: "Hope"
Votey:
A close-up of a worried, frowning face in a speech bubble.
Face: "WHO THE HELL INVITED HOPE?!"
Alt text
A four-panel comic retelling Pandora's box. In the first panel, a long-haired figure warns another person, "Don't open the box! Bad things will come out!" as a cloud of words drifts up out of an opened box: God, Scorn, Pestilence, Famine, evil. In the second panel the person who opened the box cries, "What have I done?!" In the third panel the long-haired figure reassures them, "Oh, don't worry. That's about in line with expectations," adding that they had wanted a particular thing to be the last thing in the box. In the final panel, after a "but," the last word floats out of the box: "Hope." The joke flips the usual hopeful ending of the Pandora myth, treating Hope as just another unwanted thing that escaped. Votey aftercomic: a close-up of a worried, frowning face exclaiming, "Who the hell invited Hope?!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.