habit
Original: habit on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A boy with reddish hair stands in a forest clearing, holding out a bag of money marked with a dollar sign. Two large wolves flank him on either side, with two more wolf heads looming in the foreground.
Boy (to the wolves): I've done it 100 times now. They're tired. Nobody will believe you're in the village until it's too late.
Caption (below panel): The Boy Who Cried Wolf knew exactly what he was doing.
Votey:
A close-up of an angry, scowling sheep's face against a black background.
Sheep: They didn't believe me. But I don't believe in anything.
A boy with reddish hair stands in a forest clearing, holding out a bag of money marked with a dollar sign. Two large wolves flank him on either side, with two more wolf heads looming in the foreground.
Boy (to the wolves): I've done it 100 times now. They're tired. Nobody will believe you're in the village until it's too late.
Caption (below panel): The Boy Who Cried Wolf knew exactly what he was doing.
Votey:
A close-up of an angry, scowling sheep's face against a black background.
Sheep: They didn't believe me. But I don't believe in anything.
Alt text
A comic reimagining the fable of the Boy Who Cried Wolf as a conspiracy. In the main panel, a red-haired boy stands in a green forest clearing holding out a sack of money marked with a dollar sign, surrounded by several large gray wolves. He tells them: "I've done it 100 times now. They're tired. Nobody will believe you're in the village until it's too late." A caption reads: "The Boy Who Cried Wolf knew exactly what he was doing" — revealing the boy was deliberately conditioning the villagers to ignore alarms so he could sell out the village to the wolves. The votey (aftercomic) shows a close-up of a grim, scowling sheep against a black background, saying: "They didn't believe me. But I don't believe in anything" — a nihilistic sheep who saw the betrayal coming but no longer cares.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.