The Lazy Cartoonist #2

The Lazy Cartoonist is a comic strip that features no art, because I am too lazy to draw it.  However, anybody is free to submit the art to go along with my scripts at any time, and I will post the completed strip in a future installment.  Collaboration, bitches!

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Panel One

(A suburban kitchen.  A Mother is cleaning.  A little boy, Freddy, comes running in, wearing a towel like a cape.)

Freddy: Mom!  Guess what!  I’m a superhero!

Panel Two

(The Mother is distracted by her cleaning.  She stoops down and opens the cupboard under the sink.)

Mother: Yes, Freddy…what did you do now?  Get hit by a bolt of…oh, my God, Freddy!  Did you drink all of these chemicals?!

Freddy: Yep!  I’m invincible!

Panel Three

(An ambulance races to the hospital, sirens wailing.)

Panel Four

(An examination room.  There is a Doctor, the Mother, and FreddyFreddy is on an exam table.)

Doctor:  I’ve checked him inside and out…I can’t find anything wrong with him.  It’s amazing!

Panel Five

(The Mother hugs Freddy.)

Freddy:  See!  Told ya!  I’m gonna fight crime!

Panel Six

(An exposition panel reads: “Thirty years later…”)

(Freddy sits in a cage, wearing a cape.  A sign on the front of the cage reads: “The Amazing Gulpo!  He can drink anything!”  A crowd of hayseeds is looking on as Freddy, now overweight and balding, glumly drinks from a bottle of Liquid Plumr.)

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SAD COMIC STRIP.