weird-2
Original: weird-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (the two figures stand together as small silhouettes on a hillside under a blue sky):
Man: Sally, I like you, but you weird me out.
Panel 2 (close-up of the man, who has dark skin and round glasses, talking to a woman named Sally with dark hair):
Man: What? "Weird." The archaic verb meaning "to foretell doom."?
Panel 3 (extreme close-up of Sally, eyes wide, mouth open in alarm):
Sally: How did you know I was weirding you?!
Panel 4 (the two figures shown small again; the man stands while Sally holds a hand to her face):
Man: See it's this sort of thing.
Sally: I guess that explains why you want me out, though.
Votey:
Sally (with a wild, distorted face, shouting): DEATH IN FLAAAAMES!
Man (off to the side): STOP THAT!
Man: Sally, I like you, but you weird me out.
Panel 2 (close-up of the man, who has dark skin and round glasses, talking to a woman named Sally with dark hair):
Man: What? "Weird." The archaic verb meaning "to foretell doom."?
Panel 3 (extreme close-up of Sally, eyes wide, mouth open in alarm):
Sally: How did you know I was weirding you?!
Panel 4 (the two figures shown small again; the man stands while Sally holds a hand to her face):
Man: See it's this sort of thing.
Sally: I guess that explains why you want me out, though.
Votey:
Sally (with a wild, distorted face, shouting): DEATH IN FLAAAAMES!
Man (off to the side): STOP THAT!
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: two tiny silhouetted figures stand on a green hill under a blue sky; a man says, "Sally, I like you, but you weird me out." Panel 2: close-up of the man, who has dark skin and round white glasses, beside a woman with dark hair; he says, "What? 'Weird.' The archaic verb meaning 'to foretell doom.'?" Panel 3: extreme close-up of the woman, Sally, with huge wide eyes and an open, alarmed mouth: "How did you know I was weirding you?!" Panel 4: the two figures shown small again, Sally holding a hand to her face; the man says, "See it's this sort of thing," and Sally replies, "I guess that explains why you want me out, though." The joke turns on the literal archaic meaning of "weird" (to foretell doom) versus the modern slang. Votey (a black-and-white bonus panel): Sally's face is wildly distorted as she shrieks, "DEATH IN FLAAAAMES!" and a voice off-panel says, "STOP THAT!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.