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Original: found on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic (single panel):
An older man drawn to resemble Waldo (from "Where's Waldo?") - red-and-white horizontally striped shirt, blue jeans, round black glasses, and a red-and-white bobble hat - but now elderly, with a long gray beard. He walks across a rugged, mostly barren mountain landscape carrying a wooden walking stick/cane resting over his shoulder.
Off-panel speaker (the Waldo figure, addressing whoever has found him): "YES, YOU FOUND ME. AH, BUT ARE YOU ANY HAPPIER THAN WHEN YOUR DAYS WERE SPENT SEARCHING?"
Caption below the panel: "The Tao of Waldo was only one page long."
Votey (aftercomic):
Handwritten text at the top reads: "No. Find dog."
Below it is a loose doodle of a person walking alongside a dog - illustrating the searcher's blunt reply: the answer to the guru's question is "No," and the next quest is simply to find the dog (a nod to "Where's Waldo?" also having a dog, Woof).
An older man drawn to resemble Waldo (from "Where's Waldo?") - red-and-white horizontally striped shirt, blue jeans, round black glasses, and a red-and-white bobble hat - but now elderly, with a long gray beard. He walks across a rugged, mostly barren mountain landscape carrying a wooden walking stick/cane resting over his shoulder.
Off-panel speaker (the Waldo figure, addressing whoever has found him): "YES, YOU FOUND ME. AH, BUT ARE YOU ANY HAPPIER THAN WHEN YOUR DAYS WERE SPENT SEARCHING?"
Caption below the panel: "The Tao of Waldo was only one page long."
Votey (aftercomic):
Handwritten text at the top reads: "No. Find dog."
Below it is a loose doodle of a person walking alongside a dog - illustrating the searcher's blunt reply: the answer to the guru's question is "No," and the next quest is simply to find the dog (a nod to "Where's Waldo?" also having a dog, Woof).
Alt text
A single-panel comic. An elderly man dressed exactly like Waldo from "Where's Waldo?" - red-and-white striped shirt, blue jeans, round glasses, red-and-white bobble hat - but now old with a long gray beard, walks across a barren mountain landscape carrying a wooden cane over his shoulder. An off-panel voice (the Waldo figure himself) says: "Yes, you found me. Ah, but are you any happier than when your days were spent searching?" A caption reads: "The Tao of Waldo was only one page long." The joke: finding the thing you spent your life seeking offers no real satisfaction, framed as Waldo's whole philosophy fitting on one page. The votey aftercomic answers the guru's question with handwritten text - "No. Find dog." - beside a rough doodle of a person walking with a dog, meaning the searcher isn't happier and just moves on to the next quest: finding the dog.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.