2007-08-08
Original: 2007-08-08 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
(No dialogue. A man with brown hair and a woman with red hair stand in a graveyard, looking at the headstones. One gravestone shows a photo-etched portrait of a face and reads "1932-2007".)
Panel 2:
Woman: Ugh. Those graves with photo-etchings always use really old photos. When I go, I want my grave to show how I looked at the time I died.
Man: Yeah... Hey, are those cows stampeding?
(The two are now shown sitting inside a yellow car.)
Panel 3:
(No dialogue. The red-haired woman stands looking at two gravestones. The nearer small one reads "1932-2007" with a face portrait. The larger gravestone reads "1972-2007" and depicts an etched portrait of a screaming face being trampled/crushed.)
Votey:
(Close-up of the gravestone's etched portrait: a screaming, distorted face.)
Face on gravestone: CRAP!
(No dialogue. A man with brown hair and a woman with red hair stand in a graveyard, looking at the headstones. One gravestone shows a photo-etched portrait of a face and reads "1932-2007".)
Panel 2:
Woman: Ugh. Those graves with photo-etchings always use really old photos. When I go, I want my grave to show how I looked at the time I died.
Man: Yeah... Hey, are those cows stampeding?
(The two are now shown sitting inside a yellow car.)
Panel 3:
(No dialogue. The red-haired woman stands looking at two gravestones. The nearer small one reads "1932-2007" with a face portrait. The larger gravestone reads "1972-2007" and depicts an etched portrait of a screaming face being trampled/crushed.)
Votey:
(Close-up of the gravestone's etched portrait: a screaming, distorted face.)
Face on gravestone: CRAP!
Alt text
Three-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A brown-haired man and red-haired woman stand silently in a graveyard; one headstone bears a photo-etched portrait and the dates "1932-2007." Panel 2: Now seated in a yellow car, the woman complains, "Ugh. Those graves with photo-etchings always use really old photos. When I go, I want my grave to show how I looked at the time I died." The man replies, "Yeah... Hey, are those cows stampeding?" Panel 3: The woman stands before two headstones. The new larger one reads "1972-2007" and its etched portrait shows a screaming, terrified face being trampled, i.e., exactly how she looked at the moment she died, granting her wish in the worst way. Votey: A close-up of that gravestone etching, a screaming distorted face, with a speech bubble reading "CRAP!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.