your-fathers
Original: your-fathers on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Bearded older man (holding a lightsaber): Young Jedi, this was your father's lightsaber, and it was his father's and his father's before him.
Panel 2:
The older man, now standing across a wooden floor from the kneeling young Jedi: It uses that old kind of charger, where you have to angle it just right and it takes all day to power up.
Panel 3:
The bearded man (holding up a small adapter): That is why I also give you this adapter, which was your father's and his father's and his father's before him.
Panel 4:
Young Jedi (kneeling, in the background): Can we buy a new one?
The older man (foreground, in profile): Do I look gainfully employed to you?
Bearded older man (holding a lightsaber): Young Jedi, this was your father's lightsaber, and it was his father's and his father's before him.
Panel 2:
The older man, now standing across a wooden floor from the kneeling young Jedi: It uses that old kind of charger, where you have to angle it just right and it takes all day to power up.
Panel 3:
The bearded man (holding up a small adapter): That is why I also give you this adapter, which was your father's and his father's and his father's before him.
Panel 4:
Young Jedi (kneeling, in the background): Can we buy a new one?
The older man (foreground, in profile): Do I look gainfully employed to you?
Alt text
A four-panel comic parodying the Star Wars lightsaber-inheritance scene. Panel 1: A grizzled, bearded man in robes holds out a lightsaber to a younger person and says, "Young Jedi, this was your father's lightsaber, and it was his father's and his father's before him." Panel 2: The bearded man stands across a dim wooden floor from the young Jedi, who kneels before him, and explains, "It uses that old kind of charger, where you have to angle it just right and it takes all day to power up." Panel 3: Close-up of the bearded man holding up a small charging adapter: "That is why I also give you this adapter, which was your father's and his father's and his father's before him." Panel 4: The kneeling young Jedi asks, "Can we buy a new one?" and the bearded man, shown in profile, deadpans, "Do I look gainfully employed to you?" The joke: the venerable inherited Jedi heirloom turns out to be obsolete tech with a finicky old charger, and the mentor is too broke to replace it.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.