horse
Original: horse on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A large wooden Trojan horse stands outside a city wall. A guard (a figure in a helmet and cloak) addresses someone off-panel.
Guard: "Let us in, Trojans! Free horse!"
Panel 2: Close on the Trojan horse's head against a dark background. A speech bubble comes from inside/behind it.
Voice from the horse: "Nice try! Nobody just gives away a horse. Obvious scam."
Panel 3: The guard stands beside the Trojan horse near the city wall, gesturing.
Guard: "The horse is normally 1,000 drakmas, but for the next 30 minutes, it's 70% off!"
Panel 4: Extreme close-up of the horse's eye (its dark, wide-open eye) in the foreground, with a man behind it appearing alarmed/excited, mouth open and hands up.
(no dialogue)
Votey: A small figure sits alone on a hillside, looking up at a thought bubble.
Figure (thinking): "Do I get to keep the horse after they finish killing everyone?"
Guard: "Let us in, Trojans! Free horse!"
Panel 2: Close on the Trojan horse's head against a dark background. A speech bubble comes from inside/behind it.
Voice from the horse: "Nice try! Nobody just gives away a horse. Obvious scam."
Panel 3: The guard stands beside the Trojan horse near the city wall, gesturing.
Guard: "The horse is normally 1,000 drakmas, but for the next 30 minutes, it's 70% off!"
Panel 4: Extreme close-up of the horse's eye (its dark, wide-open eye) in the foreground, with a man behind it appearing alarmed/excited, mouth open and hands up.
(no dialogue)
Votey: A small figure sits alone on a hillside, looking up at a thought bubble.
Figure (thinking): "Do I get to keep the horse after they finish killing everyone?"
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic reworking the Trojan Horse myth as a too-good-to-be-true online deal. Panel 1: A giant wooden Trojan horse sits outside a city wall as a helmeted guard calls out, "Let us in, Trojans! Free horse!" Panel 2: A close-up of the horse's head; a voice from within replies skeptically, "Nice try! Nobody just gives away a horse. Obvious scam." Panel 3: The guard, beside the horse, sweetens the pitch like a sales pitch: "The horse is normally 1,000 drakmas, but for the next 30 minutes, it's 70% off!" Panel 4: An extreme close-up of the horse's wide eye, with a man behind it suddenly wide-eyed and eager, hands raised, won over by the discount. The joke: the Trojans don't fall for a free horse, but they fall for a limited-time sale. Votey (aftercomic): A lone figure sits on a hillside, thinking in a bubble, "Do I get to keep the horse after they finish killing everyone?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.