powder
Original: powder on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A middle-aged man in a business suit sits in a leather armchair, hand on his chin, looking thoughtful.
Man: "What if I could just feed them all on... on some kind of shelf-stable food powder? Imagine the savings!"
Caption bar: "LATER..."
Panel 2: The same man, now smiling, holds up a loaf of bread to his family. A young girl rests her chin on a surface, beaming, and a woman (the mother) stands at right.
Man: "I made homemade bread!"
Woman: "You are SO thoughtful!"
Girl: "Wow, Dad!"
Votey:
A thought-bubble outline contains a sketchy drawing of the man's face looking sly/scheming.
Text: "What if instead of yeast I can use flour and bacteria sludge for the rise...?"
Man: "What if I could just feed them all on... on some kind of shelf-stable food powder? Imagine the savings!"
Caption bar: "LATER..."
Panel 2: The same man, now smiling, holds up a loaf of bread to his family. A young girl rests her chin on a surface, beaming, and a woman (the mother) stands at right.
Man: "I made homemade bread!"
Woman: "You are SO thoughtful!"
Girl: "Wow, Dad!"
Votey:
A thought-bubble outline contains a sketchy drawing of the man's face looking sly/scheming.
Text: "What if instead of yeast I can use flour and bacteria sludge for the rise...?"
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Panel 1: a man in a business suit sits in an armchair, hand on chin, thinking: "What if I could just feed them all on... on some kind of shelf-stable food powder? Imagine the savings!" A caption reads "LATER...". Panel 2: the same man, now smiling, proudly holds up a loaf of bread to his delighted daughter and wife, saying "I made homemade bread!" The wife replies "You are SO thoughtful!" and the girl says "Wow, Dad!" The joke is that his penny-pinching scheme to cheaply feed his family got reframed as a sweet act of homemade cooking. Votey (aftercomic): a sketchy thought-bubble drawing of the man's scheming face with the text "What if instead of yeast I can use flour and bacteria sludge for the rise...?" revealing his cost-cutting impulse is still running underneath the wholesome bread-baking.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.