2003-05-20
Original: 2003-05-20 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An elderly woman with white hair (referred to in the caption as "grammy"), smiling, holds out a comic book to a young boy. The comic's cover reads "SUPERMANG" and shows a red-and-yellow superhero figure.
Grammy: I know you love comic books, so I went to the grocer and picked you up one.
Caption (below panel): Supermang was actually remarkably good, but I still refused to talk to grammy.
Votey:
Title bar: READING THIS 12 YEARS LATER
A bearded man lies in bed, eyes open, looking unimpressed.
Man (thought/speech bubble): Caption needs more adverbs.
An elderly woman with white hair (referred to in the caption as "grammy"), smiling, holds out a comic book to a young boy. The comic's cover reads "SUPERMANG" and shows a red-and-yellow superhero figure.
Grammy: I know you love comic books, so I went to the grocer and picked you up one.
Caption (below panel): Supermang was actually remarkably good, but I still refused to talk to grammy.
Votey:
Title bar: READING THIS 12 YEARS LATER
A bearded man lies in bed, eyes open, looking unimpressed.
Man (thought/speech bubble): Caption needs more adverbs.
Alt text
Main comic, one panel: a smiling white-haired elderly woman holds out a comic book to a young boy. The cover reads "SUPERMANG" with a red-and-yellow superhero figure (a knockoff of Superman/Iron Man). She says, "I know you love comic books, so I went to the grocer and picked you up one." A caption below reads: "Supermang was actually remarkably good, but I still refused to talk to grammy." Votey: a title bar reads "READING THIS 12 YEARS LATER." A bearded man lies in bed looking deadpan and says, "Caption needs more adverbs." The joke: the older narrator, re-reading the comic years later, critiques the writing style of the very caption telling the story.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.