2007-04-04
Original: 2007-04-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A child in a winter hat looks up at a shooting star crossing a dark purple night sky.
Panel 2: The child, smiling and wearing a blue pom-pom hat and coat, stands in a snowy scene.
Child: I WISH EVERY DAY WAS CHRISTMAS!
Panel 3: Caption box: SUMMER...
The same person, now grown into a man wearing overalls and a straw hat, stands in a snow-covered field beside a dead cornstalk, holding a hoe.
Man: STILL?
Panel 4: A woman in a green dress confronts the man (in a red plaid shirt and straw hat), who holds his head in his hand. A small child stands between them.
Woman: WHY DIDN'T YOU USE OUR SAVINGS TO BUY FOOD?
Man: I... COULDN'T.
Woman: WHY NOT?
Panel 5: Close-up of the man's anguished, lined face.
Panel 6: The man, looking miserable, holds out a stack of wrapped Christmas presents toward the woman, who has her back to us.
Man: MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Votey: A man (the child from the start, now grown) yells angrily while another figure in a Santa-like hat grins beside him.
Man: PLEASE STOP THIS! THE ELVES ARE ALL DEAD OF EXHAUSTION!
Grinning figure: NEVER!
Panel 2: The child, smiling and wearing a blue pom-pom hat and coat, stands in a snowy scene.
Child: I WISH EVERY DAY WAS CHRISTMAS!
Panel 3: Caption box: SUMMER...
The same person, now grown into a man wearing overalls and a straw hat, stands in a snow-covered field beside a dead cornstalk, holding a hoe.
Man: STILL?
Panel 4: A woman in a green dress confronts the man (in a red plaid shirt and straw hat), who holds his head in his hand. A small child stands between them.
Woman: WHY DIDN'T YOU USE OUR SAVINGS TO BUY FOOD?
Man: I... COULDN'T.
Woman: WHY NOT?
Panel 5: Close-up of the man's anguished, lined face.
Panel 6: The man, looking miserable, holds out a stack of wrapped Christmas presents toward the woman, who has her back to us.
Man: MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Votey: A man (the child from the start, now grown) yells angrily while another figure in a Santa-like hat grins beside him.
Man: PLEASE STOP THIS! THE ELVES ARE ALL DEAD OF EXHAUSTION!
Grinning figure: NEVER!
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A child gazes at a shooting star and wishes, 'I wish every day was Christmas!' The story jumps to 'Summer...': the child has grown into a haggard farmer standing in a snow-covered field with a dead cornstalk, his wish apparently granted as perpetual Christmas-time winter. A woman demands, 'Why didn't you use our savings to buy food?' He answers, 'I... couldn't.' A close-up shows his anguished face. In the final panel he miserably hands her a stack of wrapped presents, saying 'Merry Christmas.' The endless Christmas has trapped the family in poverty and starvation. Votey: the grown man yells, 'Please stop this! The elves are all dead of exhaustion!' and a grinning figure in a Santa hat replies, 'Never!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.