god-is-dead
Original: god-is-dead on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with a large mustache (excited): GOD IS DEAD! ALL IS PERMITTED!
Panel 2:
Woman: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, NIETZSCHE?
Mustached man: YOU KNOW, LIKE MURDER AND STUFF.
Panel 3:
Woman: MURDER ISN'T PERMITTED. IT'S AGAINST THE LAW.
Mustached man (small, deflated): WHAA?!
Panel 4 (caption: LATER):
The mustached man sits at a desk, slumped, reading a large book titled "The Law."
Mustached man: BOY, I SURE WAS WRONG.
Votey:
Mustached man (off-panel speech, dejected): GUESS I'LL JUST GO BE AN ACCOUNTANT THEN.
The man walks away into the distance, shrinking, with the speech bubble trailing from him.
Man with a large mustache (excited): GOD IS DEAD! ALL IS PERMITTED!
Panel 2:
Woman: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, NIETZSCHE?
Mustached man: YOU KNOW, LIKE MURDER AND STUFF.
Panel 3:
Woman: MURDER ISN'T PERMITTED. IT'S AGAINST THE LAW.
Mustached man (small, deflated): WHAA?!
Panel 4 (caption: LATER):
The mustached man sits at a desk, slumped, reading a large book titled "The Law."
Mustached man: BOY, I SURE WAS WRONG.
Votey:
Mustached man (off-panel speech, dejected): GUESS I'LL JUST GO BE AN ACCOUNTANT THEN.
The man walks away into the distance, shrinking, with the speech bubble trailing from him.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: a man with a large bushy mustache (implied to be Nietzsche) proclaims excitedly, "God is dead! All is permitted!" Panel 2: a woman asks, "What do you mean, Nietzsche?" and he replies, "You know, like murder and stuff." Panel 3: the woman flatly corrects him: "Murder isn't permitted. It's against the law," and he reacts with a tiny deflated "Whaa?!" Panel 4, labeled "Later": the same man slumps at a desk reading a thick book titled "The Law," admitting, "Boy, I sure was wrong." The joke: Nietzsche's grand philosophical declaration is shut down by the mundane existence of laws. Votey (bonus panel): the man walks off shrinking into the distance, his trailing speech bubble reading, "Guess I'll just go be an accountant then."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.