Comic #4662: justice
Description
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Panel 1:
- Character 1: "We decided to introduce corporal punishment back into the justice system."
- Character 2: "But it's barbaric!"
Panel 2:
- Character 1: "We're offering a choice: a savage spanking or ten years in prison. Which would you pick?"
Panel 3:
- Character 3: "A fortune saved!"
- Character 4: "Negligible prison costs. Major deterrence. Low recidivism. It's perfect!"
Panel 4:
- Narration: "A problem arose."
- Character 5: "A wave of crime has struck the nation. It appears to be uncoordinated except for the fact that all of the criminals are dressed in leather and turned themselves in immediately."
Panel 5:
- Character 6: "My God!"
- Character 7: "The only remaining criminals bring their own handcuffs and paddles."
Panel 6:
- Narration: "Sociologists identified a problem."
- Character 8: "With the spankers receiving institutional punishment, the nation's compulsive paddlers have no natural outlet."
- Character 9: "I fear we have awakened a spanking giant."
Panel 7:
- Narration: "The results were catastrophic."
- Character 10: "A spree of spankery has swept the nation. The manners have been sent in to tranquilize the perpetrators, and medicated squire is being air-lifted to the nation's glowing red-cheeked buttocks."
Panel 8:
- Narration: "With the now-regular march of fetishists through prison spanking facilities, criminals who chose incarceration began to feel uncomfortable."
- Character 11: "I don't want to live in a tiny room where my butt gets smacked on all sides by people."
Panel 9:
- Narration: "Ultimately, all prisoners left the system via spanking."
- Character 12: "Grant me glorious red-cheeked freedom!"
Panel 10:
- Narration: "Crime has become ritualized."
- Character 13: "The gun is fake, but please tell the police it's real so you take your turn."
Panel 11:
- Character 14: "Real crime no longer exists."
- Character 15: "Hey, wanna go mug somebody?"
Panel 12:
- Character 16: "Naw, prison life has gotten way too creepy."
Panel 13:
- Narration: "The nation's fetishes are roundly honored."
- Character 17: "And this statue was built to commemorate the claustrophobia fetishist who's trapped in there."
- Audience: "Ooooh yeah."
Panel 14:
- Narration: "Imprisonment is now an unthinkable punishment."
- Character 18: "I can still remember the days when they would put criminals in cages and make them wait for tears. Things are so much more civilized now, with the power of the paddle."
Panel 15:
- Character 19: "It's better this way."
- Character 20: "Wait, they took people out of society for years and made them spend all day with criminals. For rehabilitation?"
- Character 21: "Old times they were. Old times."
This transcription captures the dialogue and overall flow of the comic.