earned
Original: earned on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A large dark silhouette of a caped figure (Superman) addresses a group of ordinary-looking people standing in shadow.
Silhouetted figure (Superman): "I HAVE EARNED THIS! I HAVE SAVED THE ENTIRE WORLD COUNTLESS TIMES! WHO WILL SAY I HAVE NOT EARNED THIS!?"
The group of people (several men and women) look on with uneasy, resigned expressions, saying nothing.
Caption (below panel): Once every seven years, Superman eats a baby monkey.
Votey:
A rough sketch of a small group of people clustered around what appears to be a computer or screen, looking at it together. No dialogue text.
A large dark silhouette of a caped figure (Superman) addresses a group of ordinary-looking people standing in shadow.
Silhouetted figure (Superman): "I HAVE EARNED THIS! I HAVE SAVED THE ENTIRE WORLD COUNTLESS TIMES! WHO WILL SAY I HAVE NOT EARNED THIS!?"
The group of people (several men and women) look on with uneasy, resigned expressions, saying nothing.
Caption (below panel): Once every seven years, Superman eats a baby monkey.
Votey:
A rough sketch of a small group of people clustered around what appears to be a computer or screen, looking at it together. No dialogue text.
Alt text
A single-panel comic. A large black silhouette of a caped superhero (Superman) stands at left, dominating the panel, while a small crowd of ordinary people stands huddled in shadow at right with uneasy, resigned faces. Superman declares in a speech bubble: "I HAVE EARNED THIS! I HAVE SAVED THE ENTIRE WORLD COUNTLESS TIMES! WHO WILL SAY I HAVE NOT EARNED THIS!?" The deadpan caption beneath the panel reads: "Once every seven years, Superman eats a baby monkey." The joke is the contrast between his grandiose heroic self-justification and the absurd, grim thing he is justifying. Votey (small bonus sketch): a loose black-and-white drawing of several people gathered around and peering at a screen or computer together.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.