2008-11-22
Original: 2008-11-22 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title: ARE YOU FIRED? ~A FLOWCHART~
The comic is laid out as a flowchart diagram overlaid on a scene of a man and a woman standing in front of a chalkboard.
Flowchart node (yellow box, top): "ARE YOUR HANDS ON MY CHEST?"
Arrow leading to a red diamond (decision, top right): "YES."
This leads to a yellow box (right side): "ARE YOU AN ONCOLOGIST?"
From there, two red diamonds:
- (right side): "YES." leading to a red diamond at bottom right: "NO YOU'RE NOT."
- The negative branch.
From the top "ARE YOUR HANDS ON MY CHEST?" box, the "NO" path leads to red diamonds at the bottom left: "NO." and "WELL..."
A red diamond on the left reads: "HONK! HONK! HO" (a honking sound effect).
Scene: A man with reddish-brown hair wearing an orange shirt stands at left, holding a marker/pen and reaching out with both hands toward a blonde woman in a yellow top who stands at right looking distressed. Behind them is a chalkboard.
Man (speech bubble): "YOU'RE FIRED!"
Votey:
A simpler black-and-white panel. The same man (seen from behind/side, balding with short hair) sits at a desk facing a computer monitor and keyboard. On the desk is a box labeled "OFFICE STUFF" (his belongings packed up). He holds or wears a name badge/coat reading "M.D." with a name scrawled below it. The implication: he has actually been fired (let go from his doctor job), his office belongings boxed up.
The comic is laid out as a flowchart diagram overlaid on a scene of a man and a woman standing in front of a chalkboard.
Flowchart node (yellow box, top): "ARE YOUR HANDS ON MY CHEST?"
Arrow leading to a red diamond (decision, top right): "YES."
This leads to a yellow box (right side): "ARE YOU AN ONCOLOGIST?"
From there, two red diamonds:
- (right side): "YES." leading to a red diamond at bottom right: "NO YOU'RE NOT."
- The negative branch.
From the top "ARE YOUR HANDS ON MY CHEST?" box, the "NO" path leads to red diamonds at the bottom left: "NO." and "WELL..."
A red diamond on the left reads: "HONK! HONK! HO" (a honking sound effect).
Scene: A man with reddish-brown hair wearing an orange shirt stands at left, holding a marker/pen and reaching out with both hands toward a blonde woman in a yellow top who stands at right looking distressed. Behind them is a chalkboard.
Man (speech bubble): "YOU'RE FIRED!"
Votey:
A simpler black-and-white panel. The same man (seen from behind/side, balding with short hair) sits at a desk facing a computer monitor and keyboard. On the desk is a box labeled "OFFICE STUFF" (his belongings packed up). He holds or wears a name badge/coat reading "M.D." with a name scrawled below it. The implication: he has actually been fired (let go from his doctor job), his office belongings boxed up.
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A webcomic styled as a flowchart titled "ARE YOU FIRED? ~A FLOWCHART~". Overlaid on the chart is a scene where a man in an orange shirt, holding a marker, lunges with both hands toward a distressed blonde woman in a yellow top, in front of a chalkboard. His speech bubble shouts "YOU'RE FIRED!" Yellow flowchart boxes ask questions like "ARE YOUR HANDS ON MY CHEST?" and "ARE YOU AN ONCOLOGIST?", with red diamond answer nodes reading "YES.", "NO.", "WELL...", "NO YOU'RE NOT.", and a honking sound effect "HONK! HONK! HO". The flowchart absurdly diagrams the difference between a doctor checking someone (medically, e.g. an oncologist with hands on a chest) versus a creep groping someone, conflated with someone yelling that they're "fired." Votey (aftercomic, black and white): the same man sits at a desk in front of a computer with a box labeled "OFFICE STUFF" packed up beside him and an "M.D." name badge, revealing that he himself has actually been fired from his medical job.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.