blind
Original: blind on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with dark hair: "I don't believe in revenge. 'An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.'"
Man with flame-like red hair: "What? No it doesn't."
Panel 2:
Man with red hair: "Consider two people. A stabs B in the eye. B stabs B in the eye. B stabs B in the eye. Iterate twice more, and you have zero eyes available for the purposes of revenge."
Panel 3:
Man with red hair: "The only way you could blind the whole world would be if A stabs B, so B responds by stabbing C, so C responds by stabbing D and so on. In what context would you EVER meet that condition?"
Caption corner: "FOREIGN POLICY."
Panel 4:
Man with dark hair (now wearing glasses): "I stand corrected."
Votey:
A close-up of a smug, wide-eyed face with a wavy smile.
Speech bubble: "SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE NEEDS A STABBIN'"
Man with dark hair: "I don't believe in revenge. 'An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.'"
Man with flame-like red hair: "What? No it doesn't."
Panel 2:
Man with red hair: "Consider two people. A stabs B in the eye. B stabs B in the eye. B stabs B in the eye. Iterate twice more, and you have zero eyes available for the purposes of revenge."
Panel 3:
Man with red hair: "The only way you could blind the whole world would be if A stabs B, so B responds by stabbing C, so C responds by stabbing D and so on. In what context would you EVER meet that condition?"
Caption corner: "FOREIGN POLICY."
Panel 4:
Man with dark hair (now wearing glasses): "I stand corrected."
Votey:
A close-up of a smug, wide-eyed face with a wavy smile.
Speech bubble: "SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE NEEDS A STABBIN'"
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A dark-haired man tells a red-haired man (whose hair sticks up like flames), "I don't believe in revenge. 'An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.'" The red-haired man replies, "What? No it doesn't." Panel 2: The red-haired man explains, "Consider two people. A stabs B in the eye. B stabs B in the eye... iterate twice more, and you have zero eyes available for the purposes of revenge." Panel 3: He continues that the only way to blind the whole world is if A stabs B, B stabs C, C stabs D and so on in a chain, asking, "In what context would you EVER meet that condition?" A small caption in the corner answers: "FOREIGN POLICY." Panel 4: The dark-haired man, now wearing glasses, admits, "I stand corrected." The joke is that the only scenario where the proverb literally holds is the escalating violence of foreign policy. Votey aftercomic: A close-up of a smug, wide-eyed grinning face in a speech bubble saying, "SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE NEEDS A STABBIN'."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.