A two-panel comic strip, a diptych depicting "Classic Literature" "As written" and "As read." The left panel shows a monk laboring at a writing desk with intense concentration; in the background are several lines of Beowulf (ll. 53 to about 68, in Raffel's translation) with an illuminated initial. The right panel shows teenage character Jeremy Duncan "studying" the same text; used again as a backdrop, the same lines of Beowulf are all but obliterated by various electronic devices, musical notes, and dialogue boxes showing his text messages.

Writer Scott makes one change to Raffel's text, substituting "Beowulf" for Raffel's form of the name given in that line, "Beo." This change restores the MS reading, but that may be a coincidence: it is also possible that Scott sought the first reference to Beowulf that occurs in the poem (so that his text's "classic" literary sourcing would be clear) and independently decided to expand Raffel's "Beo" to "Beowulf," making the same anticipatory substitution that scholars posit Scribe A to have made.

BAM, from online archive of Zits strips.