Fairytale
Original: Fairytale on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
(No dialogue. A shooting star streaks across a dark, cloudy night sky. Below, a small woman with red hair stands on a hill, looking up.)
Panel 2:
Woman with red hair (looking up, arms spread): SHOOTING STAR, ALL I WANT IS A ROMANCE WITH A FAIRYTALE ENDING.
Panel 3:
Caption banner: LATER...
(Scene: a witch in a black hat and robe stands beside a campfire rack on which human limbs are roasting. Two severed heads rest on the ground nearby. A gingerbread/witch's cottage is in the background. A large scroll floats to the right.)
Scroll text: And so they were eaten by witches for disobeying social norms... The End.
Votey:
(Close-up line-drawing of a witch's smiling face wearing a pointed hat.)
Witch: GOSH HIS GIANT HAIRLESS CHEST WAS EASY TO COOK.
(No dialogue. A shooting star streaks across a dark, cloudy night sky. Below, a small woman with red hair stands on a hill, looking up.)
Panel 2:
Woman with red hair (looking up, arms spread): SHOOTING STAR, ALL I WANT IS A ROMANCE WITH A FAIRYTALE ENDING.
Panel 3:
Caption banner: LATER...
(Scene: a witch in a black hat and robe stands beside a campfire rack on which human limbs are roasting. Two severed heads rest on the ground nearby. A gingerbread/witch's cottage is in the background. A large scroll floats to the right.)
Scroll text: And so they were eaten by witches for disobeying social norms... The End.
Votey:
(Close-up line-drawing of a witch's smiling face wearing a pointed hat.)
Witch: GOSH HIS GIANT HAIRLESS CHEST WAS EASY TO COOK.
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel one: a shooting star streaks across a dark cloudy night sky, with a small red-haired woman standing on a hill looking up. Panel two: a close-up of the red-haired woman, arms spread, gazing skyward, saying "Shooting star, all I want is a romance with a fairytale ending." Panel three, labeled "Later...": a witch in a black hat and robe tends a campfire roasting rack holding human arms and legs, with two severed heads on the grass and a witch's cottage behind her. A floating scroll reads in fancy script: "And so they were eaten by witches for disobeying social norms... The End." The grim joke is that wishing for a "fairytale ending" delivers a literal, gruesome old-school fairytale fate. Votey aftercomic: a simple line-drawn close-up of the witch's smiling hatted face saying, "Gosh his giant hairless chest was easy to cook."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.