Unjust
Original: Unjust on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An old man with a long gray beard and balding head sits in a chair, speaking to a younger person seen from behind. The old man is referred to as "Grandpa" in the caption.
Grandpa: "It's an unjust world. Kind people endure lives of undercompensated desolation, while the seeds of the wicked go on and on, day after day, without any comeuppance in this world or the next."
Caption (below panel): Grandpa shares his most useful lifehack.
Votey:
The same old man (Grandpa), now slumped/lying down, continues speaking in a large speech bubble.
Grandpa: "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance. But from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. It's great!"
An old man with a long gray beard and balding head sits in a chair, speaking to a younger person seen from behind. The old man is referred to as "Grandpa" in the caption.
Grandpa: "It's an unjust world. Kind people endure lives of undercompensated desolation, while the seeds of the wicked go on and on, day after day, without any comeuppance in this world or the next."
Caption (below panel): Grandpa shares his most useful lifehack.
Votey:
The same old man (Grandpa), now slumped/lying down, continues speaking in a large speech bubble.
Grandpa: "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance. But from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. It's great!"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Main panel: an old balding man with a long gray beard sits in a chair, leaning toward a younger person shown from behind, and says grimly, "It's an unjust world. Kind people endure lives of undercompensated desolation, while the seeds of the wicked go on and on, day after day, without any comeuppance in this world or the next." A caption beneath reads: "Grandpa shares his most useful lifehack." Votey (aftercomic): the same old man, now slumped down, enthusiastically delivers a long speech bubble: "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance. But from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. It's great!" The joke is that Grandpa is reframing a bleak, cynical worldview (a paraphrase of the Biblical Matthew effect) as an upbeat "lifehack."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.