before-3
Original: before-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with brown hair (left) and a woman with red hair (right) sit at a table. Between them on a plate is a house made of dark wood-like material. Both are gnawing on pieces of it, with splinters around their mouths.
Man: AAH! IT HURTS!
Woman: MY LIPS ARE FULL OF SPLINTERS! WHY DO WE DO THIS EVERY YEAR?!
Caption (below panel): Before gingerbread.
Votey:
A close-up of a person's face in a rough, hand-drawn black-and-white style, looking determined/grim.
Person: NOW, WE MUST GO EAT MAN.
A man with brown hair (left) and a woman with red hair (right) sit at a table. Between them on a plate is a house made of dark wood-like material. Both are gnawing on pieces of it, with splinters around their mouths.
Man: AAH! IT HURTS!
Woman: MY LIPS ARE FULL OF SPLINTERS! WHY DO WE DO THIS EVERY YEAR?!
Caption (below panel): Before gingerbread.
Votey:
A close-up of a person's face in a rough, hand-drawn black-and-white style, looking determined/grim.
Person: NOW, WE MUST GO EAT MAN.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic with a votey. Main panel: a brown-haired man and a red-haired woman sit at a table, each chewing on pieces of a house built from dark, wood-like material sitting on a plate between them. Splinters stick out of their mouths. The man yells, 'AAH! IT HURTS!' The woman exclaims, 'MY LIPS ARE FULL OF SPLINTERS! WHY DO WE DO THIS EVERY YEAR?!' A caption below reads 'Before gingerbread.' The joke: before gingerbread was invented, people supposedly made holiday houses out of actual wood and ate them painfully. Votey (aftercomic): in a crude black-and-white sketch style, a grim-faced person declares, 'NOW, WE MUST GO EAT MAN.' implying the next escalation was cannibalism.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.