Mad
Original: Mad on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
A balding man with glasses (a scientist) speaks, gesturing, while a woman with long blonde hair sits restrained in a chair or device in the background.
Scientist: "You're not actually crazy, though. How else would you build a death ray? I think you're just unhappy with how the world is and you're acting out."
Caption (below panel): Most evil scientists are not mad, just disappointed.
Votey:
Close-up of the balding scientist, hand on his chin, looking thoughtful/wistful.
Scientist (speech bubble): "It all began during a mandatory faculty meeting..."
A balding man with glasses (a scientist) speaks, gesturing, while a woman with long blonde hair sits restrained in a chair or device in the background.
Scientist: "You're not actually crazy, though. How else would you build a death ray? I think you're just unhappy with how the world is and you're acting out."
Caption (below panel): Most evil scientists are not mad, just disappointed.
Votey:
Close-up of the balding scientist, hand on his chin, looking thoughtful/wistful.
Scientist (speech bubble): "It all began during a mandatory faculty meeting..."
Alt text
A balding bespectacled scientist gestures earnestly as he speaks to a long-haired blonde woman strapped into a device behind him. He says: "You're not actually crazy, though. How else would you build a death ray? I think you're just unhappy with how the world is and you're acting out." A caption below reads: "Most evil scientists are not mad, just disappointed." In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the same scientist resting his hand on his chin reflects: "It all began during a mandatory faculty meeting..." The joke reframes the classic mad-scientist trope as ordinary workplace disillusionment.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.