2008-05-12
Original: 2008-05-12 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A man (the host/father, with brown hair): "THAT'S MY LOAD-BEARING SON."
The scene shows two adult guests (a man with red hair and a man with brown hair) seen from behind, standing in a room. Beside them is a small green potted plant on a stand. A young smiling boy stands holding up his arms against a thick wooden pillar/column that runs from floor to ceiling, as if he is structurally supporting it.
Votey:
A black-and-white sketch showing the same column/pillar from the previous panel, but the boy is now lying collapsed/melted in a puddle-like heap at the base of the column. A curtain hangs beside the window in the background. (The implication: the load-bearing son has given out and the structure — and he — has come undone.)
A man (the host/father, with brown hair): "THAT'S MY LOAD-BEARING SON."
The scene shows two adult guests (a man with red hair and a man with brown hair) seen from behind, standing in a room. Beside them is a small green potted plant on a stand. A young smiling boy stands holding up his arms against a thick wooden pillar/column that runs from floor to ceiling, as if he is structurally supporting it.
Votey:
A black-and-white sketch showing the same column/pillar from the previous panel, but the boy is now lying collapsed/melted in a puddle-like heap at the base of the column. A curtain hangs beside the window in the background. (The implication: the load-bearing son has given out and the structure — and he — has come undone.)
Alt text
A single-panel color comic set in a room. Two adult men, seen from behind, stand listening; nearby is a small potted plant on a stand. A brown-haired man says in a speech bubble, "THAT'S MY LOAD-BEARING SON." To the right, a small smiling boy stands with his arms raised, pressing against a thick floor-to-ceiling wooden pillar as though he is holding up the structure of the house. The joke plays on the term "load-bearing" by treating a child as an actual structural support. Votey (a small black-and-white follow-up sketch): the same pillar is shown, but the boy has collapsed into a melted puddle-like heap at its base, implying the load-bearing son has finally given out under the weight.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.