Wasp
Original: Wasp on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A group of wasps (parasitoid wasps) sit gathered around a glowing campfire at night in a dark forest, perched on logs as if telling a scary story around the fire.
Narrating wasp: "And when they had finished feasting on the living flesh of the caterpillar and were about to burst out of its body... they discovered... they couldn't get out!!"
Votey:
Close-up of a small horrified-looking larva/grub character clutching the side of its face.
Larva: "I'M GONNA HAVE NIGHTMARES ALL WEEK ABOUT MY HOST ORGANISM SURVIVING!"
A group of wasps (parasitoid wasps) sit gathered around a glowing campfire at night in a dark forest, perched on logs as if telling a scary story around the fire.
Narrating wasp: "And when they had finished feasting on the living flesh of the caterpillar and were about to burst out of its body... they discovered... they couldn't get out!!"
Votey:
Close-up of a small horrified-looking larva/grub character clutching the side of its face.
Larva: "I'M GONNA HAVE NIGHTMARES ALL WEEK ABOUT MY HOST ORGANISM SURVIVING!"
Alt text
A single-panel comic shows a cluster of wasps gathered around a glowing campfire at night in a dark forest, sitting on logs like campers telling spooky stories. One wasp narrates: "And when they had finished feasting on the living flesh of the caterpillar and were about to burst out of its body... they discovered... they couldn't get out!!" The joke inverts the real-life horror of parasitoid wasps that devour caterpillars from inside, turning it into the wasps' own campfire ghost story. Votey (aftercomic): A close-up of a small, wide-eyed larva clutching its face in terror, saying, "I'M GONNA HAVE NIGHTMARES ALL WEEK ABOUT MY HOST ORGANISM SURVIVING!" The punchline reveals that for these parasites, the scariest possible outcome is their victim living.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.