sporting
Original: sporting on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
The scene shows a fishing/hunting vessel silhouetted on the water at dusk, with crew members aboard exchanging dialogue (speakers not individually identified).
First speaker: "GOD, IT'S NOT EVEN SPORTING. SONAR FINDS ONE OF LEGAL SIZE, WE FIRE THE MECHANICAL HARPOONS, AND IT'S OVER. IT WAS BETTER IN GRANDFATHER'S TIME."
Second speaker: "WE CAN FEED A WHOLE CITY, CAPTAIN."
Caption beneath the panel: "If Godzilla were real, we'd have made it industrialized meat by now."
Votey:
Close-up of a grizzled sea captain wearing a captain's hat and smoking a pipe, with a weary expression.
Captain: "I'M GONNA RETIRE AND JUST FISH FOR LOCH NESS MONSTERS."
The scene shows a fishing/hunting vessel silhouetted on the water at dusk, with crew members aboard exchanging dialogue (speakers not individually identified).
First speaker: "GOD, IT'S NOT EVEN SPORTING. SONAR FINDS ONE OF LEGAL SIZE, WE FIRE THE MECHANICAL HARPOONS, AND IT'S OVER. IT WAS BETTER IN GRANDFATHER'S TIME."
Second speaker: "WE CAN FEED A WHOLE CITY, CAPTAIN."
Caption beneath the panel: "If Godzilla were real, we'd have made it industrialized meat by now."
Votey:
Close-up of a grizzled sea captain wearing a captain's hat and smoking a pipe, with a weary expression.
Captain: "I'M GONNA RETIRE AND JUST FISH FOR LOCH NESS MONSTERS."
Alt text
A single-panel comic shows the dark silhouette of a fishing/whaling-style ship on the water at dusk against a purple sky. Speech bubbles from the unseen crew read: "God, it's not even sporting. Sonar finds one of legal size, we fire the mechanical harpoons, and it's over. It was better in grandfather's time." Another replies, "We can feed a whole city, Captain." A caption below reads: "If Godzilla were real, we'd have made it industrialized meat by now" — the joke being that humanity would have turned even Godzilla into a routine commercial food source. In the votey (a small black-and-white follow-up panel), a close-up of a weary captain with a pipe and captain's hat says, "I'm gonna retire and just fish for Loch Ness monsters."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.