2006-07-04
Original: 2006-07-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: An airplane flies through a blue sky over clouds. No text.
Panel 2: Inside the plane, two men sit. The man on the left wears a yellow life vest and looks worried/grim; the man on the right wears a green parachute pack and looks calm. No text.
Panel 3: The two men give each other thumbs up. The man in the yellow vest smiles; the man with the green parachute (now seen from behind, with orange hair) returns the gesture. No text.
Panel 4: The two men sit side by side, both smiling contentedly. No text.
Panel 5: An exit door of the plane is open, clouds visible outside. The man in the green parachute waves goodbye as he prepares to jump; the man in the yellow vest watches. No text.
Panel 6: Outside the plane, the parachuting man (green jacket, orange hair) falls through the sky and is caught/bitten in the jaws of a large gray shark, mouth full of teeth, against the cloudy blue sky. No text.
Votey: A close-up of the gray shark's open, toothy mouth lunging forward, jaws wide. No text.
Panel 2: Inside the plane, two men sit. The man on the left wears a yellow life vest and looks worried/grim; the man on the right wears a green parachute pack and looks calm. No text.
Panel 3: The two men give each other thumbs up. The man in the yellow vest smiles; the man with the green parachute (now seen from behind, with orange hair) returns the gesture. No text.
Panel 4: The two men sit side by side, both smiling contentedly. No text.
Panel 5: An exit door of the plane is open, clouds visible outside. The man in the green parachute waves goodbye as he prepares to jump; the man in the yellow vest watches. No text.
Panel 6: Outside the plane, the parachuting man (green jacket, orange hair) falls through the sky and is caught/bitten in the jaws of a large gray shark, mouth full of teeth, against the cloudy blue sky. No text.
Votey: A close-up of the gray shark's open, toothy mouth lunging forward, jaws wide. No text.
Alt text
A wordless six-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: an airplane flies over clouds in a blue sky. Panel 2: inside the cabin, two men sit together — one in a yellow life vest looking worried, the other in a green parachute pack looking calm. Panel 3: they exchange thumbs-up, both pleased. Panel 4: they sit side by side smiling. Panel 5: the plane's exit door is open to the clouds; the parachuting man waves goodbye as the life-vest man watches. Panel 6: the joke lands — the skydiver, mid-fall, is caught in the gaping toothy jaws of a huge gray shark soaring through the sky, his careful preparation undone by an absurd airborne shark. The votey (aftercomic) is a close-up of that same gray shark's wide-open, teeth-filled mouth lunging toward the viewer. No text appears anywhere in the comic.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.