kid
Original: kid on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bearded man (seen mostly from behind in the foreground) speaks angrily to a group of other bearded, robed men.
Man in foreground: "I'VE GOT TO RESET EVERYTHING TO ZERO? AND NOW THERE'S TWO VERSIONS OF EVERY YEAR? ALL BECAUSE SOME KID SHOWED UP? WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS?"
Caption below the comic:
Fun Fact: early Christian persecution was largely over calendar adjustments.
Votey:
Handwritten text (continuing the foreground man's rant): "Is this year zero or one or what?"
A second handwritten line, presented as someone's exasperated reply/exclamation: "Jesus Christ!"
Below the text is a small scribbly drawing of a person with their arms raised.
A bearded man (seen mostly from behind in the foreground) speaks angrily to a group of other bearded, robed men.
Man in foreground: "I'VE GOT TO RESET EVERYTHING TO ZERO? AND NOW THERE'S TWO VERSIONS OF EVERY YEAR? ALL BECAUSE SOME KID SHOWED UP? WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS?"
Caption below the comic:
Fun Fact: early Christian persecution was largely over calendar adjustments.
Votey:
Handwritten text (continuing the foreground man's rant): "Is this year zero or one or what?"
A second handwritten line, presented as someone's exasperated reply/exclamation: "Jesus Christ!"
Below the text is a small scribbly drawing of a person with their arms raised.
Alt text
A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic. In a single panel, a bearded man in robes, seen from behind in the foreground, rants at a group of other bearded men in ancient robes. His speech bubble reads: 'I've got to reset everything to zero? And now there's two versions of every year? All because some kid showed up? Whose idea was this?' The joke frames the adoption of the Anno Domini (BC/AD) calendar around the birth of Jesus as a bureaucratic headache. A caption beneath reads: 'Fun Fact: early Christian persecution was largely over calendar adjustments.' Votey (the bonus panel under the red button): handwritten text continues the man's complaint, 'Is this year zero or one or what?', followed by an exasperated 'Jesus Christ!' as a pun on swearing and on the actual subject of the calendar dispute, with a small scribble of a person throwing their arms up.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.