siren
Original: siren on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Crewman: Captain! We're about to pass the island of the Sirens!
Bearded captain: I order you to tie me to the mast!
Panel 2:
Bearded captain: There, though. Honestly I don't see why you can't just use your wax to plug up the Sirens!
Panel 3:
Crewman: Sirens? What Sirens?
Panel 4:
Bearded captain: Um... I order you to spank me!
Votey:
Bearded captain (shouting, with a sly grin): Tie me to the ship's wheel!
Crewman: Captain! We're about to pass the island of the Sirens!
Bearded captain: I order you to tie me to the mast!
Panel 2:
Bearded captain: There, though. Honestly I don't see why you can't just use your wax to plug up the Sirens!
Panel 3:
Crewman: Sirens? What Sirens?
Panel 4:
Bearded captain: Um... I order you to spank me!
Votey:
Bearded captain (shouting, with a sly grin): Tie me to the ship's wheel!
Alt text
A four-panel black-and-white SMBC comic parodying Odysseus and the Sirens. Panel 1: a crewman tells the bearded captain they are about to pass the island of the Sirens; the captain orders, "I order you to tie me to the mast!" Panel 2: the captain adds that he honestly doesn't see why they can't just use their wax to plug up the Sirens. Panel 3: the crewman, confused, asks "Sirens? What Sirens?" revealing there were never any Sirens, and the captain just wanted to be tied up. Panel 4: the cornered captain awkwardly improvises, "Um... I order you to spank me!" The joke is that the captain is using the famous myth as an excuse to indulge a bondage kink. Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the grinning bearded captain shouting "Tie me to the ship's wheel!", escalating the same gag.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.