2006-12-17
Original: 2006-12-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (beach scene):
A woman with red hair and sunglasses, an older gray-haired woman, and a muscular man in a blue-and-red superhero costume stand on a beach. The superhero looks troubled, hand to his chin.
Woman (speech balloon): FOR WEEKS NOW! HE JUST SITS THERE STARING AT THAT WALL AND CRYING ALL DAY, AND NOBODY KNOWS WHY!
Panel 2 (flashback inset, labeled "RECENTLY..."):
The superhero, face contorted in anguish, fires a beam from his eyes. A bald villain in a green-and-purple outfit stands in a doorway holding a device and points it back at him.
Villain (speech balloon): SO LONG, X-RAY VISION
Votey:
A man's face, drawn in simple line art, looks downcast.
Man (speech balloon): Life is pointless.
A woman with red hair and sunglasses, an older gray-haired woman, and a muscular man in a blue-and-red superhero costume stand on a beach. The superhero looks troubled, hand to his chin.
Woman (speech balloon): FOR WEEKS NOW! HE JUST SITS THERE STARING AT THAT WALL AND CRYING ALL DAY, AND NOBODY KNOWS WHY!
Panel 2 (flashback inset, labeled "RECENTLY..."):
The superhero, face contorted in anguish, fires a beam from his eyes. A bald villain in a green-and-purple outfit stands in a doorway holding a device and points it back at him.
Villain (speech balloon): SO LONG, X-RAY VISION
Votey:
A man's face, drawn in simple line art, looks downcast.
Man (speech balloon): Life is pointless.
Alt text
A two-part SMBC comic. Main comic, first panel: on a beach, a red-haired woman in sunglasses tells an older gray-haired woman, while a glum muscular superhero in a blue-and-red costume stands beside them holding his chin, "FOR WEEKS NOW! HE JUST SITS THERE STARING AT THAT WALL AND CRYING ALL DAY, AND NOBODY KNOWS WHY!" Second panel, an inset labeled "RECENTLY...": the same superhero, face twisted in pain, while a bald villain in green and purple aims a device at his eyes and says "SO LONG, X-RAY VISION." The joke: someone stole the hero's power to see through walls, and now he despairs while staring at an ordinary wall, unable to see anything beyond it. Votey aftercomic: a simply drawn man's downcast face says "Life is pointless."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.