true-name
Original: true-name on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Interviewer (bald man with glasses, behind a desk): "Thank you for the resume. Very nice."
Panel 2:
Interviewer: "Okay, first question: What is your TRUE NAME - the name which when said aloud gives the speaker complete power over you?"
Panel 3:
Applicant (young man with dark curly hair, in a tie, looking blank): "I will pay you three times a living wage."
Panel 4:
Interviewer (leaning back, eyes closed, gesturing reverently): "Behold! His name shall never be spoken!"
Votey:
A simple line drawing of a chick/bird below a speech bubble that reads: "Paid time off" is my other name.
Interviewer (bald man with glasses, behind a desk): "Thank you for the resume. Very nice."
Panel 2:
Interviewer: "Okay, first question: What is your TRUE NAME - the name which when said aloud gives the speaker complete power over you?"
Panel 3:
Applicant (young man with dark curly hair, in a tie, looking blank): "I will pay you three times a living wage."
Panel 4:
Interviewer (leaning back, eyes closed, gesturing reverently): "Behold! His name shall never be spoken!"
Votey:
A simple line drawing of a chick/bird below a speech bubble that reads: "Paid time off" is my other name.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic of a job interview. Panel 1: a bald, bespectacled interviewer seated behind a desk says, "Thank you for the resume. Very nice," to a young man with dark curly hair. Panel 2: the interviewer asks, "Okay, first question: What is your TRUE NAME - the name which when said aloud gives the speaker complete power over you?" Panel 3: the young applicant, deadpan, replies, "I will pay you three times a living wage." Panel 4: the interviewer leans back with eyes closed and hands raised reverently, declaring, "Behold! His name shall never be spoken!" The joke: an offer of generous pay is treated as a sacred, all-powerful true name. Votey (aftercomic): a small line drawing of a bird beneath a speech bubble saying, "Paid time off" is my other name.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.