Scar
Original: Scar on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Caption (top, in yellow box): SCARIFICATION IDEA: HAVE IT LOOK LIKE SOME TREES WERE IN LOVE AND CUT THEIR INITIALS IN YOU.
A shirtless man with reddish hair holds open his yellow jacket to reveal his bare chest to another man (seen from behind, brown hair). On his chest is a scar shaped like a heart with the text "ASH HOLLY" inside it (styled like initials carved into tree bark, the way lovers carve their names into a tree trunk).
Shirtless man: AND WHEN I AWOKE... I FOUND THIS.
Votey:
Label at top: ALSO
A hand-drawn panel showing another carved heart. Inside the heart, handwritten text reads: "Rowan + Blight Resistant American chestnut hybrid 'BR'"
Caption (top, in yellow box): SCARIFICATION IDEA: HAVE IT LOOK LIKE SOME TREES WERE IN LOVE AND CUT THEIR INITIALS IN YOU.
A shirtless man with reddish hair holds open his yellow jacket to reveal his bare chest to another man (seen from behind, brown hair). On his chest is a scar shaped like a heart with the text "ASH HOLLY" inside it (styled like initials carved into tree bark, the way lovers carve their names into a tree trunk).
Shirtless man: AND WHEN I AWOKE... I FOUND THIS.
Votey:
Label at top: ALSO
A hand-drawn panel showing another carved heart. Inside the heart, handwritten text reads: "Rowan + Blight Resistant American chestnut hybrid 'BR'"
Alt text
Main comic, single panel: A yellow caption box reads "SCARIFICATION IDEA: HAVE IT LOOK LIKE SOME TREES WERE IN LOVE AND CUT THEIR INITIALS IN YOU." A shirtless red-haired man holds his yellow jacket open, displaying a heart-shaped scar on his chest containing the carved initials "ASH HOLLY" — like the heart-with-initials lovers carve into tree bark, except here the trees carved it into a person. He tells another man (shown from behind), "And when I awoke... I found this." The joke flips the trope: instead of a couple carving their names into a tree, two trees in love have carved their names into a human. Votey (small bonus panel) labeled "ALSO": a hand-drawn carved heart containing the text "Rowan + Blight Resistant American chestnut hybrid 'BR'" — a second tree-couple's love carving, naming a disease-resistant chestnut as the romantic partner.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.