hook
Original: hook on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption above the panel): Favorite pastime: literary conspiracy theories.
Speaker (a man with flame-like reddish hair, leaning in earnestly toward a group of listeners): Think about it. He's called Captain Hook, but there's no way he was BORN with the name Hook. He was born with HANDS. And what character was created 21 years earlier and was about 21 years younger? Long John Silver's coxswain: Mr. Israel HANDS.
A listener (off to the side): GASP!
Votey:
The same red-haired man, now drawn alone and looking exhausted/manic.
Man: I know I booked an hour but that's the whole theory.
Speaker (a man with flame-like reddish hair, leaning in earnestly toward a group of listeners): Think about it. He's called Captain Hook, but there's no way he was BORN with the name Hook. He was born with HANDS. And what character was created 21 years earlier and was about 21 years younger? Long John Silver's coxswain: Mr. Israel HANDS.
A listener (off to the side): GASP!
Votey:
The same red-haired man, now drawn alone and looking exhausted/manic.
Man: I know I booked an hour but that's the whole theory.
Alt text
A man with flame-like reddish hair leans forward, talking intensely to a group of seated listeners. The caption above reads 'Favorite pastime: literary conspiracy theories.' He says: 'Think about it. He's called Captain Hook, but there's no way he was BORN with the name Hook. He was born with HANDS. And what character was created 21 years earlier and was about 21 years younger? Long John Silver's coxswain: Mr. Israel HANDS.' One listener exclaims 'GASP!' In the votey aftercomic, the same man is shown alone, looking drained, saying: 'I know I booked an hour but that's the whole theory.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.