Magic
Original: Magic on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Two farmers in overalls stand in a barren, plowed field under a bleak sky. A bare, dead tree stands in the background.
Bearded farmer in a red shirt and hat (holding clumps of dirt in both hands): WE GAVE THEM WATER AND FERTILIZER AND SUNSHINE, BUT NOTHING WILL GROW. NOTHING! WHY?!
Second farmer (with flame-like orange hair, a wide-brimmed hat, yellow shirt, holding a tool/staff): TWO WORDS: MAGIC. BEANS.
Caption (below panel): If Jack's beanstalk was 1000 miles tall, and about a mile thick, it'd use up all atmospheric CO2.
Votey:
Hand-drawn text inside a roughly-drawn square frame reads: MILES
Two farmers in overalls stand in a barren, plowed field under a bleak sky. A bare, dead tree stands in the background.
Bearded farmer in a red shirt and hat (holding clumps of dirt in both hands): WE GAVE THEM WATER AND FERTILIZER AND SUNSHINE, BUT NOTHING WILL GROW. NOTHING! WHY?!
Second farmer (with flame-like orange hair, a wide-brimmed hat, yellow shirt, holding a tool/staff): TWO WORDS: MAGIC. BEANS.
Caption (below panel): If Jack's beanstalk was 1000 miles tall, and about a mile thick, it'd use up all atmospheric CO2.
Votey:
Hand-drawn text inside a roughly-drawn square frame reads: MILES
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic. Two farmers in overalls stand in a barren, freshly plowed brown field under a dreary blue-gray sky, with a leafless dead tree in the background. The bearded farmer on the left, wearing a red shirt and hat and clutching clumps of dirt in both hands, says with frustration: "We gave them water and fertilizer and sunshine, but nothing will grow. NOTHING! WHY?!" The second farmer, with flame-like orange hair, a wide-brimmed hat and a yellow shirt, holding a staff or tool, replies deadpan: "Two words: Magic. Beans." A caption below reads: "If Jack's beanstalk was 1000 miles tall, and about a mile thick, it'd use up all atmospheric CO2." The joke imagines the fairy-tale beanstalk as so enormous it would consume all of Earth's carbon dioxide to grow. Votey (the small bonus panel after the comic): the word "MILES" drawn by hand inside a rough hand-drawn square frame.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.