blackmail
Original: blackmail on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A person wearing a leather harness and pale round goggles/mask (speaking): YOU WILL LET ME DO AS I PLEASE OR I WILL BLACKMAIL YOU.
Panel 2:
A man with flame-like orange hair (frowning): HOW?
Panel 3:
The harnessed person (leaning in toward the orange-haired man): BY TELLING PEOPLE YOU PARTICIPATED IN THIS BLACKMAIL FANTASY!
Panel 4:
The orange-haired man (resigned): I WILL DO AS YOU BID, SEXY BENOIT MANDELBROT!
Caption below the comic: Fetish recursion: the ultimate taboo.
Votey:
A speech bubble (spoken by a partially-drawn figure embracing another at the lower right): ALL NIPPLES ON MY BODY ARE MADE OF SMALLER NIPPLES.
A person wearing a leather harness and pale round goggles/mask (speaking): YOU WILL LET ME DO AS I PLEASE OR I WILL BLACKMAIL YOU.
Panel 2:
A man with flame-like orange hair (frowning): HOW?
Panel 3:
The harnessed person (leaning in toward the orange-haired man): BY TELLING PEOPLE YOU PARTICIPATED IN THIS BLACKMAIL FANTASY!
Panel 4:
The orange-haired man (resigned): I WILL DO AS YOU BID, SEXY BENOIT MANDELBROT!
Caption below the comic: Fetish recursion: the ultimate taboo.
Votey:
A speech bubble (spoken by a partially-drawn figure embracing another at the lower right): ALL NIPPLES ON MY BODY ARE MADE OF SMALLER NIPPLES.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a person in a leather harness and pale round goggles declares, "You will let me do as I please or I will blackmail you." Panel 2: a frowning man with flame-like orange hair asks, "How?" Panel 3: the harnessed person leans in: "By telling people you participated in this blackmail fantasy!" Panel 4: the orange-haired man, resigned, says, "I will do as you bid, sexy Benoit Mandelbrot!" Caption below: "Fetish recursion: the ultimate taboo." The joke nests a fetish (blackmail) inside the fetish of being blackmailed about it, and names the dom after the mathematician famous for fractals (infinitely self-nested patterns). Votey: a roughly sketched figure embraces another and says, "All nipples on my body are made of smaller nipples" — a fractal-body riff continuing the Mandelbrot theme.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.