Trash
Original: Trash on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (top left):
A bald man in a yellow shirt holds up a baggy gray plastic object, presenting it to a man with dark curly hair.
Bald man: "It's my new invention. It's a trashbag, but it has 4 tube-shaped offshoots. Big stuff goes in the middle, small stuff squeezes in the tubes."
Panel 2 (top right):
The curly-haired man stands skeptically with arms at his sides while the bald inventor gestures.
Curly-haired man: "This is stupid and pointless."
Bald inventor: "Yeah? Well, you're gonna be jealous on trash day."
Panel 3 (bottom left):
An outdoor scene by a fence. In the background another figure struggles with their trash. In the foreground the bald inventor stands with his eyes closed, looking serenely satisfied. (No dialogue.)
Panel 4 (bottom right):
Extreme close-up on the curly-haired man's face, eyes closed, a single tear running down his cheek.
Curly-haired man: "I have never been so wrong."
Votey:
Close-up of a smiling man's face in a speech bubble.
Man (thinking/saying): "Now he'll never guess that I'm a serial killer!"
A bald man in a yellow shirt holds up a baggy gray plastic object, presenting it to a man with dark curly hair.
Bald man: "It's my new invention. It's a trashbag, but it has 4 tube-shaped offshoots. Big stuff goes in the middle, small stuff squeezes in the tubes."
Panel 2 (top right):
The curly-haired man stands skeptically with arms at his sides while the bald inventor gestures.
Curly-haired man: "This is stupid and pointless."
Bald inventor: "Yeah? Well, you're gonna be jealous on trash day."
Panel 3 (bottom left):
An outdoor scene by a fence. In the background another figure struggles with their trash. In the foreground the bald inventor stands with his eyes closed, looking serenely satisfied. (No dialogue.)
Panel 4 (bottom right):
Extreme close-up on the curly-haired man's face, eyes closed, a single tear running down his cheek.
Curly-haired man: "I have never been so wrong."
Votey:
Close-up of a smiling man's face in a speech bubble.
Man (thinking/saying): "Now he'll never guess that I'm a serial killer!"
Alt text
A four-panel comic in a 2x2 grid. Panel 1: a bald man in a yellow shirt proudly holds up a baggy gray trashbag with four tube-shaped offshoots, telling a skeptical curly-haired friend, "It's my new invention. It's a trashbag, but it has 4 tube-shaped offshoots. Big stuff goes in the middle, small stuff squeezes in the tubes." Panel 2: the friend says "This is stupid and pointless," and the inventor retorts, "Yeah? Well, you're gonna be jealous on trash day." Panel 3: an outdoor trash-day scene; the inventor stands in the foreground with eyes closed, serenely content, while someone else struggles with their garbage behind a fence. Panel 4: an extreme close-up of the friend's face, eyes closed with a single tear, admitting, "I have never been so wrong." The joke: a ridiculous over-engineered trashbag turns out to be genuinely, movingly superior. Votey (bonus panel): a close-up of a cheerful man whose speech bubble reads, "Now he'll never guess that I'm a serial killer!" - implying the multi-tube trashbag's real selling point is conveniently disposing of body parts.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.