medium
Original: medium on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Medium (an older woman with glasses and a hat, eyes closed in concentration): I'm getting a vision... yes I can talk to him. It's your grandfather! He... he loved fishing. And he often wore a hat.
Panel 2:
Man (skeptical, frowning): Goddammit, this is how you know mediums are bullshit.
Panel 3:
Man (angry, gesturing): You got a guy who's dead, speaking from the great beyond, communicating with his only son, and THAT'S what he tells you?
Panel 4 (caption banner): ELSEWHERE, IN THE SPIRIT REALM...
Ghostly grandfather (a translucent floating spirit, arms outstretched): Tell him I liked to fish! Tell him about my hat!
Votey:
Ghostly grandfather (faint outline, shouting): Tell him my name started with D!
Medium (an older woman with glasses and a hat, eyes closed in concentration): I'm getting a vision... yes I can talk to him. It's your grandfather! He... he loved fishing. And he often wore a hat.
Panel 2:
Man (skeptical, frowning): Goddammit, this is how you know mediums are bullshit.
Panel 3:
Man (angry, gesturing): You got a guy who's dead, speaking from the great beyond, communicating with his only son, and THAT'S what he tells you?
Panel 4 (caption banner): ELSEWHERE, IN THE SPIRIT REALM...
Ghostly grandfather (a translucent floating spirit, arms outstretched): Tell him I liked to fish! Tell him about my hat!
Votey:
Ghostly grandfather (faint outline, shouting): Tell him my name started with D!
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: an older woman medium with glasses and a hat sits with eyes closed, saying she's getting a vision and can talk to the man's grandfather, who loved fishing and often wore a hat. Panel 2: a skeptical man frowns and says, 'Goddammit, this is how you know mediums are bullshit.' Panel 3: the man, now angry and gesturing, says: 'You got a guy who's dead, speaking from the great beyond, communicating with his only son, and THAT'S what he tells you?' Panel 4, captioned 'Elsewhere, in the spirit realm...', shows a faint translucent ghost of the grandfather floating with arms outstretched, desperately shouting, 'Tell him I liked to fish! Tell him about my hat!' The joke: the trivial messages really are the urgent things the ghost is trying to convey. Votey (aftercomic): the same barely-visible ghost shouts one more thing, 'Tell him my name started with D!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.