hamlet-2
Original: hamlet-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Ghostly translucent figure: Hamlet! It thou doest ever try to deny father love...
Ghost: Does it strike you he came back from the dead and didn't say a single nice thing to me? I have grandpa issues, didn't your grandfather move forever to not gonna tell me? Just thinking about yourself, then?
Panel 2 (young man speaking):
Man: Love?
Panel 3:
Ghost: Have you noticed that you mysteriously died and the whole kingdom has just moved on instantaneously? That tell you something about the level of care for you on this planet?
Man: I'm fatherless down here! Nobody likes me! How about a little guidance?
Panel 4:
Ghost: Here's some guidance: kill your uncle!
Man: Ugh. Tell you what, I'll get rid of you for a while and see what turns up.
(Bottom black panel): ATTABOY.
Votey:
A stern bearded king's face. Caption at top reads: "GOD KIDS ARE WHINY TODAY."
Ghostly translucent figure: Hamlet! It thou doest ever try to deny father love...
Ghost: Does it strike you he came back from the dead and didn't say a single nice thing to me? I have grandpa issues, didn't your grandfather move forever to not gonna tell me? Just thinking about yourself, then?
Panel 2 (young man speaking):
Man: Love?
Panel 3:
Ghost: Have you noticed that you mysteriously died and the whole kingdom has just moved on instantaneously? That tell you something about the level of care for you on this planet?
Man: I'm fatherless down here! Nobody likes me! How about a little guidance?
Panel 4:
Ghost: Here's some guidance: kill your uncle!
Man: Ugh. Tell you what, I'll get rid of you for a while and see what turns up.
(Bottom black panel): ATTABOY.
Votey:
A stern bearded king's face. Caption at top reads: "GOD KIDS ARE WHINY TODAY."
Alt text
A four-panel black-and-white SMBC comic riffing on Hamlet. A translucent ghost (Hamlet's dead father) hovers and lectures a young man, complaining that he came back from the dead and got no warm welcome, listing grievances about feeling unloved and unappreciated, and noting the kingdom moved on instantly after his death. The young man, looking deadpan, weakly responds with "Love?" and asks for some fatherly guidance since he's fatherless and unliked. The ghost's advice is simply "Kill your uncle!" The young man shrugs it off, saying he'll just get rid of the ghost for a while and see what turns up. A final all-black panel reads "ATTABOY." The joke recasts Hamlet's ghostly father as a needy, guilt-tripping parent and Hamlet as an unimpressed teen. Votey: a close-up of a stern, bearded king's face with the caption "GOD KIDS ARE WHINY TODAY."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.