punchline-2
Original: punchline-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Narration box: PEOPLE WHO USE CLICHES AS PUNCHLINES SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH IN CONSPICUOUS LOCATIONS!
(A man with flame-like orange hair, sweating, grips his own hair and shouts angrily.)
Panel 2:
The same man stands as a tiny figure with arms raised atop a green hill against a blue sky.
Man: I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL!
Votey:
Narration box: LATER:
(A loose, sketchy drawing of a skull, with a streak of red.)
Narration box: PEOPLE WHO USE CLICHES AS PUNCHLINES SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH IN CONSPICUOUS LOCATIONS!
(A man with flame-like orange hair, sweating, grips his own hair and shouts angrily.)
Panel 2:
The same man stands as a tiny figure with arms raised atop a green hill against a blue sky.
Man: I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL!
Votey:
Narration box: LATER:
(A loose, sketchy drawing of a skull, with a streak of red.)
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Panel one: a man with spiky orange flame-like hair, sweating and furious, grips his hair and shouts via a narration box reading 'People who use cliches as punchlines should be put to death in conspicuous locations!' Panel two: the same man, now a tiny silhouette with arms raised, stands atop a green hill against a blue sky, declaring 'I will die on this hill!' The joke literalizes the idiom 'I will die on this hill' (to defend a position to the bitter end) by placing him on an actual conspicuous hilltop. Votey aftercomic: a box labeled 'Later:' shows a roughly sketched skull with a streak of red, implying he did in fact die there.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.