score
Original: score on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man in trenchcoat and hat (dealer): Hey man, you wanna score some novelty pens?
Panel 2:
Red-haired man: Hm?
Panel 3:
Dealer (in sunglasses and fedora): I smuggled them across the Darien Gap in my rectum.
Panel 4:
Red-haired man: But novelty pens aren't contraband.
Dealer: Do you wanna debate the law or buy a single pen that makes 12 colors including METALLIC SILVER.
Panel 5:
Red-haired man: And why the trenchcoat and alleyway? Selling pens isn't illegal to-
Dealer: I did not cross 100 miles of jungle with a Hello Kitty multi-pen in my anus just to be LAUGHED AT!
Panel 6 (caption: LATER...):
Woman: You paid $20 for a pen?
Red-haired man (holding the pen): It's not about the object. It's about the story it tells.
Votey:
Caption / thought: If this pen could talk, it probably wouldn't.
(Drawing of the red-haired man's face in profile, looking down.)
Man in trenchcoat and hat (dealer): Hey man, you wanna score some novelty pens?
Panel 2:
Red-haired man: Hm?
Panel 3:
Dealer (in sunglasses and fedora): I smuggled them across the Darien Gap in my rectum.
Panel 4:
Red-haired man: But novelty pens aren't contraband.
Dealer: Do you wanna debate the law or buy a single pen that makes 12 colors including METALLIC SILVER.
Panel 5:
Red-haired man: And why the trenchcoat and alleyway? Selling pens isn't illegal to-
Dealer: I did not cross 100 miles of jungle with a Hello Kitty multi-pen in my anus just to be LAUGHED AT!
Panel 6 (caption: LATER...):
Woman: You paid $20 for a pen?
Red-haired man (holding the pen): It's not about the object. It's about the story it tells.
Votey:
Caption / thought: If this pen could talk, it probably wouldn't.
(Drawing of the red-haired man's face in profile, looking down.)
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A shady man in a trenchcoat, fedora, and sunglasses approaches a red-haired man in an alley and asks if he wants to 'score some novelty pens,' explaining he smuggled them across the Darien Gap in his rectum. The red-haired man points out that novelty pens aren't contraband; the dealer insists on selling a single pen that makes 12 colors including metallic silver and refuses to 'debate the law.' When asked why the trenchcoat and alleyway since selling pens is legal, the dealer shouts that he did not cross 100 miles of jungle with a Hello Kitty multi-pen in his anus just to be laughed at. In the final panel, labeled LATER, a woman asks the red-haired man why he paid $20 for a pen; holding it, he replies, 'It's not about the object. It's about the story it tells.' Votey: a black-and-white sketch of the red-haired man's face looking down, captioned 'If this pen could talk, it probably wouldn't.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.