rapture-2
Original: rapture-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A chaotic, glowing scene. A woman cries out in alarm as beams of light shine down and souls begin to lift upward.
Woman: OH MY GOD, IT'S THE RAPTURE! THE GOOD PEOPLE'S SOULS ARE ASCENDING TO HEAVEN!
Panel 2: A red-haired man (Ted) in a maroon shirt stands alone in a field, looking up, not chosen.
Panel 3: Ted, with a hand to his chin, looks thoughtful and a little hurt, standing among bodies left behind.
Ted: HUH. GUESS I WASN'T CHOSEN. I WONDER WHY.
Panel 4: Ted looks up and calls out.
Ted: HEY GOD ARE YOU GONNA LEAVE THE BODIES BEHIND? LIKE, SINCE PEOPLE AREN'T USING THEM.
Voice from above (in a glowing speech bubble): THIS IS WHY, TED. THIS KINDA THING.
Votey:
A single large speech bubble (the voice from above / God).
Voice: I JUST WANTED A PUPPET SHOW, YOU WEIRDO!
Below, a small drawing of Ted from behind, holding up a severed body / corpse like a puppet by its arms.
Woman: OH MY GOD, IT'S THE RAPTURE! THE GOOD PEOPLE'S SOULS ARE ASCENDING TO HEAVEN!
Panel 2: A red-haired man (Ted) in a maroon shirt stands alone in a field, looking up, not chosen.
Panel 3: Ted, with a hand to his chin, looks thoughtful and a little hurt, standing among bodies left behind.
Ted: HUH. GUESS I WASN'T CHOSEN. I WONDER WHY.
Panel 4: Ted looks up and calls out.
Ted: HEY GOD ARE YOU GONNA LEAVE THE BODIES BEHIND? LIKE, SINCE PEOPLE AREN'T USING THEM.
Voice from above (in a glowing speech bubble): THIS IS WHY, TED. THIS KINDA THING.
Votey:
A single large speech bubble (the voice from above / God).
Voice: I JUST WANTED A PUPPET SHOW, YOU WEIRDO!
Below, a small drawing of Ted from behind, holding up a severed body / corpse like a puppet by its arms.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic about the Rapture. Panel 1: a glowing, chaotic scene where a woman screams that it's the Rapture and good people's souls are ascending to heaven, with figures lifting upward in beams of light. Panel 2: a red-haired man named Ted stands alone in a field, looking up, clearly not chosen. Panel 3: Ted, hand on chin, muses 'Huh. Guess I wasn't chosen. I wonder why,' standing near bodies left behind. Panel 4: Ted calls up, 'Hey God are you gonna leave the bodies behind? Like, since people aren't using them.' A voice from above answers in a glowing bubble: 'This is why, Ted. This kinda thing.' Votey (aftercomic): the voice from above clarifies, 'I just wanted a puppet show, you weirdo!' beneath a small drawing of Ted holding up a corpse by its arms like a puppet. The joke: Ted's morbid, opportunistic question about reusing the dead bodies is exactly the kind of behavior that got him left out of the Rapture.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.