chipmunks
Original: chipmunks on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Green-costumed villain (Lex Luthor): "THAT'S RIGHT, SUPERMAN! I AM PUTTING SINGLE BELLS ON EVERY CAPMILANK IN FRANCE."
Panel 2:
Superman (thinking, hand to chin, puzzled): [silent, considering]
Panel 3:
Superman: "CURSE YOU, LEX! YOU'LL NEVER... NEVER... BUT... CAPMILANK?"
Panel 4:
Superman (on a video screen / phone call): "WONDER WOMAN, IT'S SUPERMAN. WHY WOULD LEX LUTHOR PUT BELLS ON CAPMILANK?"
Panel 5:
Superman: "ON CAPMILANK?"
Wonder Woman (on screen): "IN FRANCE."
Panel 6:
Wonder Woman: "HOLD ON. I'M CALLING BATMAN."
Panel 7:
Aquaman: "MY SUPERCOMPUTER HAS 83 GUESSES ON THE BELLS BUT THE FRENCH CONNECTION. HOLD ON, I GOT A CALL FROM AQUAMAN."
Batman (on screen): "YEAH, WE DON'T KNOW EITHER."
Wonder Woman: "HOLD ON. ARE YOU GONNA TEXT CYBORG?"
Panel 8:
Caption: "MEANWHILE..."
A helicopter flies away from a wooden sign on the ground reading "FORT KNOX."
Votey:
Text (handwritten, centered): "TRAGICALLY, BY REDUCING THE MONEY SUPPLY, LEX LUTHOR LOWERED INFLATION."
Green-costumed villain (Lex Luthor): "THAT'S RIGHT, SUPERMAN! I AM PUTTING SINGLE BELLS ON EVERY CAPMILANK IN FRANCE."
Panel 2:
Superman (thinking, hand to chin, puzzled): [silent, considering]
Panel 3:
Superman: "CURSE YOU, LEX! YOU'LL NEVER... NEVER... BUT... CAPMILANK?"
Panel 4:
Superman (on a video screen / phone call): "WONDER WOMAN, IT'S SUPERMAN. WHY WOULD LEX LUTHOR PUT BELLS ON CAPMILANK?"
Panel 5:
Superman: "ON CAPMILANK?"
Wonder Woman (on screen): "IN FRANCE."
Panel 6:
Wonder Woman: "HOLD ON. I'M CALLING BATMAN."
Panel 7:
Aquaman: "MY SUPERCOMPUTER HAS 83 GUESSES ON THE BELLS BUT THE FRENCH CONNECTION. HOLD ON, I GOT A CALL FROM AQUAMAN."
Batman (on screen): "YEAH, WE DON'T KNOW EITHER."
Wonder Woman: "HOLD ON. ARE YOU GONNA TEXT CYBORG?"
Panel 8:
Caption: "MEANWHILE..."
A helicopter flies away from a wooden sign on the ground reading "FORT KNOX."
Votey:
Text (handwritten, centered): "TRAGICALLY, BY REDUCING THE MONEY SUPPLY, LEX LUTHOR LOWERED INFLATION."
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic parodying superheroes. Lex Luthor, a green-suited villain, declares to Superman that he is putting "single bells on every capmilank in France" -- nonsense words. Superman, confused, repeats the gibberish and curses Luthor, then video-calls Wonder Woman asking why Lex would put bells on "capmilank." She is equally baffled ("In France"), and says she'll call Batman. The heroes keep chaining calls -- Aquaman, Batman, Cyborg -- none of them able to decode the meaningless threat, while Aquaman's supercomputer offers 83 useless guesses. In the final panel, captioned "MEANWHILE...," a helicopter flies away from a wooden sign reading "FORT KNOX," implying the heroes were distracted by the nonsense while Luthor robbed Fort Knox. The votey aftercomic is plain handwritten text: "Tragically, by reducing the money supply, Lex Luthor lowered inflation." -- the joke being his heist accidentally had a beneficial economic effect.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.