born
Original: born on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Man with light hair (Macduff): Wait, wait, you alone were able to kill Macbeth because the witches' prophecy said "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth"?
Panel 2
Woman (Macduff's mother): Well, it can be interpreted as--
Macduff: I had a goddamn C-section in the era before germ theory and you don't count me as "of woman born"?!
Caption (below panels): Macduff doesn't tell his mother that story anymore.
Votey:
Macduff: You get regicidal superpowers, and I get *zero* credit?
(A close-up of an annoyed/frowning face fills the right side of the panel.)
Man with light hair (Macduff): Wait, wait, you alone were able to kill Macbeth because the witches' prophecy said "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth"?
Panel 2
Woman (Macduff's mother): Well, it can be interpreted as--
Macduff: I had a goddamn C-section in the era before germ theory and you don't count me as "of woman born"?!
Caption (below panels): Macduff doesn't tell his mother that story anymore.
Votey:
Macduff: You get regicidal superpowers, and I get *zero* credit?
(A close-up of an annoyed/frowning face fills the right side of the panel.)
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic riffing on Macbeth. Panel 1: a light-haired man (Macduff) demands of an older woman (his mother): "Wait, wait, you alone were able to kill Macbeth because the witches' prophecy said 'none of woman born shall harm Macbeth'?" Panel 2: the woman begins "Well, it can be interpreted as--" but the man cuts her off, furious: "I had a goddamn C-section in the era before germ theory and you don't count me as 'of woman born'?!" Caption beneath: "Macduff doesn't tell his mother that story anymore." The joke recasts Macbeth's fated slayer as resentful that his mother gets the prophecy's credit while he survived a brutal pre-modern Caesarean. Votey: a tight close-up of the man's annoyed, frowning face as he complains, "You get regicidal superpowers, and I get *zero* credit?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.