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Original: line on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A fortune teller wearing a yellow head wrap sits at a table, holding the hand of a red-haired man (in a red shirt) seated across from her, reading his palm.
Fortune teller: "...and this line across your palm tells me you're an idiot."
Panel 2 (captioned "EARLIER..."):
The same red-haired man, now with a beard, stands in a kitchen by a refrigerator, holding a large knife and looking at a fresh cut on his palm.
Man: "AH! GODDAMIT, THEY SHOULD SAY WHICH SIDE OF THE KNIFE IS THE UP PART!"
Votey:
Caption above a drawing of a flame: "SAME THING FOR MATCHES."
A fortune teller wearing a yellow head wrap sits at a table, holding the hand of a red-haired man (in a red shirt) seated across from her, reading his palm.
Fortune teller: "...and this line across your palm tells me you're an idiot."
Panel 2 (captioned "EARLIER..."):
The same red-haired man, now with a beard, stands in a kitchen by a refrigerator, holding a large knife and looking at a fresh cut on his palm.
Man: "AH! GODDAMIT, THEY SHOULD SAY WHICH SIDE OF THE KNIFE IS THE UP PART!"
Votey:
Caption above a drawing of a flame: "SAME THING FOR MATCHES."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A fortune teller in a yellow head wrap reads the palm of a red-haired man seated across a table and says, "...and this line across your palm tells me you're an idiot." Panel 2, labeled "EARLIER...": the same man stands in a kitchen holding a large knife, having just cut his own palm, exclaiming, "AH! GODDAMIT, THEY SHOULD SAY WHICH SIDE OF THE KNIFE IS THE UP PART!" The joke: the "line across his palm" the fortune teller read is actually a self-inflicted knife cut. Votey: a drawing of a flame with the caption "SAME THING FOR MATCHES."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.