onions-2
Original: onions-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man stands proudly beside an enormous pile of onions taller than he is.
Man: There! I got my onion pile fifty feet high.
Panel 2:
A young boy with red hair holds up an onion to the man (his father).
Boy: Look daddy I stole an onion!
Man: No! That's a keystone onion!
Panel 3:
The onion pile collapses into an avalanche. The man shoves the boy aside, throwing his own body in front of the cascading onions.
Man: Run boy run! I will block the avalanche with my body!
Panel 4:
Caption: 30 years later
The boy, now a grown red-haired man, stands with tears streaming down his face. A small girl looks up at him.
Girl: Papa, why do you cry when you cut onions?
Votey:
A sketchy line drawing of the now-grown red-haired man's tearful face.
Man: I just wish... the onions had finished the job.
A man stands proudly beside an enormous pile of onions taller than he is.
Man: There! I got my onion pile fifty feet high.
Panel 2:
A young boy with red hair holds up an onion to the man (his father).
Boy: Look daddy I stole an onion!
Man: No! That's a keystone onion!
Panel 3:
The onion pile collapses into an avalanche. The man shoves the boy aside, throwing his own body in front of the cascading onions.
Man: Run boy run! I will block the avalanche with my body!
Panel 4:
Caption: 30 years later
The boy, now a grown red-haired man, stands with tears streaming down his face. A small girl looks up at him.
Girl: Papa, why do you cry when you cut onions?
Votey:
A sketchy line drawing of the now-grown red-haired man's tearful face.
Man: I just wish... the onions had finished the job.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: a man stands proudly next to a giant pile of onions taller than himself, saying "There! I got my onion pile fifty feet high." Panel 2: his red-haired young son holds up an onion, saying "Look daddy I stole an onion!"; the father exclaims "No! That's a keystone onion!" Panel 3: the onion pile collapses into an avalanche; the father shoves the boy clear and throws his body in front of it, shouting "Run boy run! I will block the avalanche with my body!" Panel 4, captioned "30 years later": the son, now a grown red-haired man, stands crying as a small girl looks up and asks, "Papa, why do you cry when you cut onions?" Votey aftercomic: a rough sketch of the grown man's tearful face as he says, "I just wish... the onions had finished the job."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.