2007-09-23
Original: 2007-09-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A young blond boy named Billy sits on his bed at night, knees drawn up, looking uneasy. Two adult figures stand in the dark bedroom doorway as silhouettes.
Parent (speech bubble): "BILLY, WHAT YOU SAW IN THERE WAS (AT MANY POINTS) PERFECTLY NATURAL. IT'S SOMETHING THAT (A PERCENTAGE OF) MOMMIES AND DADDIES DO TO EXPRESS (IN SOME CASES) HOW MUCH THEY LOVE EACH OTHER."
Caption (below panel): "I wish they would've removed the leather masks before giving me 'the talk.'"
Votey:
The boy is being hugged tightly by an adult wearing a featureless dark leather mask with stitching/laces. The boy looks distressed.
Masked figure (speech bubble): "WE LOVE YOU!"
A young blond boy named Billy sits on his bed at night, knees drawn up, looking uneasy. Two adult figures stand in the dark bedroom doorway as silhouettes.
Parent (speech bubble): "BILLY, WHAT YOU SAW IN THERE WAS (AT MANY POINTS) PERFECTLY NATURAL. IT'S SOMETHING THAT (A PERCENTAGE OF) MOMMIES AND DADDIES DO TO EXPRESS (IN SOME CASES) HOW MUCH THEY LOVE EACH OTHER."
Caption (below panel): "I wish they would've removed the leather masks before giving me 'the talk.'"
Votey:
The boy is being hugged tightly by an adult wearing a featureless dark leather mask with stitching/laces. The boy looks distressed.
Masked figure (speech bubble): "WE LOVE YOU!"
Alt text
Main comic, single dark panel: a worried blond boy sits on his bed at night while two adult figures stand silhouetted in the bedroom doorway. One parent says in a long speech bubble, 'Billy, what you saw in there was (at many points) perfectly natural. It's something that (a percentage of) mommies and daddies do to express (in some cases) how much they love each other.' A caption beneath reads: 'I wish they would've removed the leather masks before giving me the talk.' The hedging parentheticals and the deadpan caption reveal the parents are giving their son 'the talk' after he caught them doing BDSM, while still wearing their gear. Votey (small black-and-white aftercomic): the boy is squeezed in a tight hug by an adult wearing a blank, laced-up dark leather mask; the figure cheerfully says 'We love you!' while the boy looks deeply uncomfortable.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.