Comic Transcripts

HERVE (a deep-sea diver): Which way to the pool-
GUIDO (a bear in an ill-fitting hat): -waytothepool JINX!
HERVE: What? I’m looking for the YMCA.
GUIDO: You can’t talk! I jinxed you! Pinch poke you owe me a Coke!

HERVE: Whatever. Look, I’m supposed to be giving a safety lecture to the kids, and I’m already late-
GUIDO: You do not TALK. I have JINXED you. If you continue to talk before you are un-jinxed then I will eat you. I swear on my mother’s grave that I will eat you.

HERVE: Fine. Eat me. But just know that right now, sitting in that YMCA, there’s a kid who’s going to cure cancer someday. Except he’s NOT, because he’s going to drown tomorrow. Because I wasn’t there to give the safety lecture.
GUIDO: I have already eaten all the children at the YMCA.
HERVE: You are a horrible creature.
GUIDO: YOU DO NOT SEEM TO BE GRASPING THE POINT OF JINX

{{header: do your job at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Like so many of us, convincing himself that his job is Critically Important To The World is the only thing that gets Herve out of bed and into that stanky diving gear every morning.}}

#378; In which Children suffer transcribed by in

HERVE (a deep-sea diver): Which way to the pool-
GUIDO (a bear in an ill-fitting hat): -waytothepool JINX!
HERVE: What? I’m looking for the YMCA.
GUIDO: You can’t talk! I jinxed you! Pinch poke you owe me a Coke!

HERVE: Whatever. Look, I’m supposed to be giving a safety lecture to the kids, and I’m already late-
GUIDO: You do not TALK. I have JINXED you. If you continue to talk before you are un-jinxed then I will eat you. I swear on my mother’s grave that I will eat you.

HERVE: Fine. Eat me. But just know that right now, sitting in that YMCA, there’s a kid who’s going to cure cancer someday. Except he’s NOT, because he’s going to drown tomorrow. Because I wasn’t there to give the safety lecture.
GUIDO: I have already eaten all the children at the YMCA.
HERVE: You are a horrible creature.
GUIDO: YOU DO NOT SEEM TO BE GRASPING THE POINT OF JINX

{{header: do your job at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Like so many of us, convincing himself that his job is Critically Important To The World is the only thing that gets Herve out of bed and into that stanky diving gear every morning.}}

#378; In which Children suffer transcribed by in

HERVE (a deep-sea diver): Which way to the pool-
GUIDO (a bear in an ill-fitting hat): -waytothepool JINX!
HERVE: What? I'm looking for the YMCA.
GUIDO: You can't talk! I jinxed you! Pinch poke you owe me a Coke!

HERVE: Whatever. Look, I'm supposed to be giving a safety lecture to the kids, and I'm already late-
GUIDO: You do not TALK. I have JINXED you. If you continue to talk before you are un-jinxed then I will eat you. I swear on my mother's grave that I will eat you.

HERVE: Fine. Eat me. But just know that right now, sitting in that YMCA, there's a kid who's going to cure cancer someday. Except he's NOT, because he's going to drown tomorrow. Because I wasn't there to give the safety lecture.
GUIDO: I have already eaten all the children at the YMCA.
HERVE: You are a horrible creature.
GUIDO: YOU DO NOT SEEM TO BE GRASPING THE POINT OF JINX

{{header: do your job at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Like so many of us, convincing himself that his job is Critically Important To The World is the only thing that gets Herve out of bed and into that stanky diving gear every morning.}}

Like so many of us, convincing himself that his job is Critically Important To The World is the only thing that gets Herve out of bed and into that stanky diving gear every morning.

#378; In which Children suffer

  — June 7th, 2011

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