2006-12-15
Original: 2006-12-15 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel): A hospital room. A woman with brown hair, glasses, and a green shirt sits in a chair leaning over a hospital bed, speaking to a woman with reddish hair in a blue gown who is lying in the bed.
Brown-haired woman: OH MY GOD! YOU'RE AWAKE!
Woman in bed: WHA... WHERE AM I?
Brown-haired woman: THE HOSPITAL! YOU WERE IN A COMA FOR TWELVE YEARS. I NEVER LEFT THIS CHAIR FOR A MOMENT!
Woman in bed: I KNOW YOU DIDN'T, HONEY. I KNOW.
Caption (below panel): Looking down, I noticed Sharon poking at my paunch.
Votey:
A simple line-drawing of a person's face looking down/away with a flat expression.
Speech bubble: I think we should see other people.
Brown-haired woman: OH MY GOD! YOU'RE AWAKE!
Woman in bed: WHA... WHERE AM I?
Brown-haired woman: THE HOSPITAL! YOU WERE IN A COMA FOR TWELVE YEARS. I NEVER LEFT THIS CHAIR FOR A MOMENT!
Woman in bed: I KNOW YOU DIDN'T, HONEY. I KNOW.
Caption (below panel): Looking down, I noticed Sharon poking at my paunch.
Votey:
A simple line-drawing of a person's face looking down/away with a flat expression.
Speech bubble: I think we should see other people.
Alt text
Main comic (one panel): A hospital room scene. A brown-haired woman in glasses and a green shirt leans forward from a chair toward a red-haired woman lying in a hospital bed in a blue gown. The seated woman exclaims, 'Oh my god! You're awake!' The patient asks, 'Wha... where am I?' The seated woman says, 'The hospital! You were in a coma for twelve years. I never left this chair for a moment!' The patient replies, 'I know you didn't, honey. I know.' The caption beneath reads: 'Looking down, I noticed Sharon poking at my paunch' — implying the devoted partner has actually been idly poking the comatose patient's belly the whole time, undercutting the sentimental moment. Votey (bonus panel): A rough black-and-white line drawing of a face looking down with a blank expression, saying in a speech bubble, 'I think we should see other people.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.