2008-07-03
Original: 2008-07-03 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (main comic):
A man with brown hair sits in front of a large monitor holding a video game controller. The screen displays a green "HIGH SCORE" arcade screen.
Screen text: HIGH SCORE
Screen text: ENTER YOUR INITIALS!
Screen: _ _ _ (three blank initial slots)
Caption (below panel): Yet even now, a small part of me wonders if I should've stayed in Med School.
Votey:
Extreme close-up of the man's eye. Reflected in his eye is the high-score screen, where the three initials have been entered to read "DOC" (rendered backwards as a mirror reflection in the eye). A tear wells at the corner of the eye.
A man with brown hair sits in front of a large monitor holding a video game controller. The screen displays a green "HIGH SCORE" arcade screen.
Screen text: HIGH SCORE
Screen text: ENTER YOUR INITIALS!
Screen: _ _ _ (three blank initial slots)
Caption (below panel): Yet even now, a small part of me wonders if I should've stayed in Med School.
Votey:
Extreme close-up of the man's eye. Reflected in his eye is the high-score screen, where the three initials have been entered to read "DOC" (rendered backwards as a mirror reflection in the eye). A tear wells at the corner of the eye.
Alt text
Main comic: A single panel shows a brown-haired man seated in a dark room before a large monitor, holding a gamepad. The monitor displays a retro arcade high-score screen in bright green: "HIGH SCORE / ENTER YOUR INITIALS!" with three blank dashes for the initials. The caption below reads: "Yet even now, a small part of me wonders if I should've stayed in Med School." Votey (aftercomic): An extreme close-up of the man's eye, a tear forming at its corner. Reflected on the surface of his eye is the high-score screen, and the three initials he has entered spell "DOC" (a wistful nod to the medical career he gave up). The joke: he memorialized his abandoned doctor dream by typing "DOC" as his arcade high-score initials.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.