stone-2
Original: stone-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A figure with dark snake-like hair speaks from off to the left.
Figure: "Traveller! I will tell you the secret! Raise your arms into a point, and spread apart your legs, shaping yourself into an equilateral triangle. Then you may look upon me safely!"
(At right, a traveller stands holding up the bottom edge of a cloak or robe in front of their face, beginning to follow the instructions.)
Panel 2: Close-up of the speaker, revealed to be Medusa — a woman with writhing snakes for hair, frowning.
Panel 3: A stone statue of a person standing with arms raised into a point overhead and legs spread apart, forming a triangle shape.
Panel 4: A kneeling woman with snake hair (Medusa) gazes at a large stacked arrangement of many triangle-posed stone statues, assembled together into a structure.
Medusa: "This is gonna look so cool when it's done."
Votey: A simple line-drawn smiling face inside a hand-drawn frame, with a thought/speech caption.
Caption: "Manstone is such a pretty building material."
Figure: "Traveller! I will tell you the secret! Raise your arms into a point, and spread apart your legs, shaping yourself into an equilateral triangle. Then you may look upon me safely!"
(At right, a traveller stands holding up the bottom edge of a cloak or robe in front of their face, beginning to follow the instructions.)
Panel 2: Close-up of the speaker, revealed to be Medusa — a woman with writhing snakes for hair, frowning.
Panel 3: A stone statue of a person standing with arms raised into a point overhead and legs spread apart, forming a triangle shape.
Panel 4: A kneeling woman with snake hair (Medusa) gazes at a large stacked arrangement of many triangle-posed stone statues, assembled together into a structure.
Medusa: "This is gonna look so cool when it's done."
Votey: A simple line-drawn smiling face inside a hand-drawn frame, with a thought/speech caption.
Caption: "Manstone is such a pretty building material."
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: an off-screen figure with snaky hair tells a traveller, "Traveller! I will tell you the secret! Raise your arms into a point, and spread apart your legs, shaping yourself into an equilateral triangle. Then you may look upon me safely!" The traveller, at right, holds up a cloak in front of their face. Panel 2: a close-up reveals the speaker is Medusa, scowling, with snakes for hair. Panel 3: a gray stone statue of a person frozen in the triangle pose, arms pointed up and legs spread. Panel 4: Medusa kneels admiring a big structure built from many of these triangle-shaped petrified people stacked together, saying, "This is gonna look so cool when it's done." The joke: the 'safe pose' is really just so she can turn travellers into uniform triangular building blocks. Votey: a simple smiling face with the caption, "Manstone is such a pretty building material."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.