fortune-2
Original: fortune-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with purple hair: Hey Fortune, do you favor the bold?
Fortune (a woman with reddish-brown hair): Nah.
Panel 2:
Fortune: Actually I kill them about three times as often, just to get them to chill out.
Panel 3:
Woman with purple hair: Problem is a couple of them slip through and summit Everest or whatever, and then THOSE ones go home and say "fortune favors the bold".
Panel 4:
Fortune: I mean I'm literally killing you creatures all day long, but for some reason when I miss one of you, that one thinks were dating.
Panel 5:
Woman with purple hair: You mean survivor bias?
Fortune: I mean clinginess!
Votey:
Fortune (off-panel speech, over a close-up of the purple-haired woman's smile): Does it really seem to you like fortune favors any humans?
Woman with purple hair: Hey Fortune, do you favor the bold?
Fortune (a woman with reddish-brown hair): Nah.
Panel 2:
Fortune: Actually I kill them about three times as often, just to get them to chill out.
Panel 3:
Woman with purple hair: Problem is a couple of them slip through and summit Everest or whatever, and then THOSE ones go home and say "fortune favors the bold".
Panel 4:
Fortune: I mean I'm literally killing you creatures all day long, but for some reason when I miss one of you, that one thinks were dating.
Panel 5:
Woman with purple hair: You mean survivor bias?
Fortune: I mean clinginess!
Votey:
Fortune (off-panel speech, over a close-up of the purple-haired woman's smile): Does it really seem to you like fortune favors any humans?
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic, a conversation between a woman with purple hair and Fortune personified as a woman with reddish-brown hair. Panel 1: The purple-haired woman asks, "Hey Fortune, do you favor the bold?" Fortune replies, "Nah." Panel 2: Fortune (in close-up) says, "Actually I kill them about three times as often, just to get them to chill out." Panel 3: The purple-haired woman: "Problem is a couple of them slip through and summit Everest or whatever, and then THOSE ones go home and say 'fortune favors the bold'." Panel 4: Fortune: "I mean I'm literally killing you creatures all day long, but for some reason when I miss one of you, that one thinks were dating." Panel 5: A wide shot of the purple-haired woman in profile; she asks, "You mean survivor bias?" Fortune answers from off-panel, "I mean clinginess!" Votey (aftercomic): A black-and-white close-up of the purple-haired woman's faintly smiling mouth and chin, with Fortune asking from a speech bubble, "Does it really seem to you like fortune favors any humans?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.