mans-2
Original: mans-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man-Spider (a person in a red spider-themed costume with large blue eyes): I am Man-Spider! I was a spider like you but was bitten by a radioactive man! Now I have the powers of man!
Panel 2:
Spider (off to the side, listening): Like what?
Panel 3:
Man-Spider: I can feel sadness about abstractions.
Panel 4:
Man-Spider (arms outstretched): Impermanence.
Panel 5:
The spider, deeply moved: Wow!
Votey:
Caption: That must be great!
(A wide-eyed spider with a quivering, distressed open-mouthed expression.)
Man-Spider (a person in a red spider-themed costume with large blue eyes): I am Man-Spider! I was a spider like you but was bitten by a radioactive man! Now I have the powers of man!
Panel 2:
Spider (off to the side, listening): Like what?
Panel 3:
Man-Spider: I can feel sadness about abstractions.
Panel 4:
Man-Spider (arms outstretched): Impermanence.
Panel 5:
The spider, deeply moved: Wow!
Votey:
Caption: That must be great!
(A wide-eyed spider with a quivering, distressed open-mouthed expression.)
Alt text
A five-panel comic. A person in a red spider costume with big blue eyes declares to a real spider, "I am Man-Spider! I was a spider like you but was bitten by a radioactive man! Now I have the powers of man!" The spider asks, "Like what?" Man-Spider answers, "I can feel sadness about abstractions." Then, arms spread, he says, "Impermanence." The spider, gazing up, responds in awe, "Wow!" The joke inverts the Spider-Man origin: the superpower gained from becoming part-man is the very human capacity for existential sadness, which the spider finds genuinely impressive. Votey: a close-up of a wide-eyed spider with a quivering, open-mouthed, overwhelmed expression beneath the caption "That must be great!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.