Prayer
Original: Prayer on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (in bed, praying): Dear God, why don't you answer prayers?
God (voice from a glowing yellow speech bubble): Sally, how many times have you personally wished death on a co-worker?
Panel 2:
Sally (pointing, angry): Those were WISHES. I wouldn't formally put those in a PRAYER.
Panel 3:
God (voice from glowing bubble): What if you knew it'd work?
(Sally stands small below, looking up.)
Panel 4:
Sally: Trick question! Someone else would've offed me first!
God: But you see where I'm coming from.
Votey:
Sally (speech bubble): Wait, do you answer YOUR murder-prayers?
Woman (in bed, praying): Dear God, why don't you answer prayers?
God (voice from a glowing yellow speech bubble): Sally, how many times have you personally wished death on a co-worker?
Panel 2:
Sally (pointing, angry): Those were WISHES. I wouldn't formally put those in a PRAYER.
Panel 3:
God (voice from glowing bubble): What if you knew it'd work?
(Sally stands small below, looking up.)
Panel 4:
Sally: Trick question! Someone else would've offed me first!
God: But you see where I'm coming from.
Votey:
Sally (speech bubble): Wait, do you answer YOUR murder-prayers?
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A woman lies in bed at night and prays, "Dear God, why don't you answer prayers?" A glowing yellow speech bubble (God) replies, "Sally, how many times have you personally wished death on a co-worker?" Panel 2: Sally, now standing and pointing angrily, retorts, "Those were WISHES. I wouldn't formally put those in a PRAYER." Panel 3: God's glowing bubble asks, "What if you knew it'd work?" Sally stands small at the bottom of the frame, looking up. Panel 4: Sally insists, "Trick question! Someone else would've offed me first!" and God replies, "But you see where I'm coming from." Votey (aftercomic): A close-up profile of Sally as her speech bubble asks, "Wait, do you answer YOUR murder-prayers?" The joke: God justifies not answering prayers by pointing out everyone constantly prays for each other's deaths, and the votey flips it back on God.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.