2009-02-23
Original: 2009-02-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A blond boy in a red shirt sits on a purple couch, holding a video game controller, grinning.
Boy: HA! JUST DEFEATED THE LONELINESS GOBLINS OF ISOLATIA! MAN, PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE LATCHKEY PARENTING OBVIOUSLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ADVANCED PRO-PSYCHOLOGICAL VIDEO GAMES!
Panel 2:
A wide pull-back shot of an empty room. The same boy is now small and alone, just his blond head and shoulders barely visible behind the purple couch in the lower left corner. The rest of the room is empty and quiet. (No dialogue.)
Votey:
A rough hand-drawn black-and-white scribble-style panel. The boy sits hunched on a small stool in the corner of a room, head down, looking sad and small. The walls and floor are covered with scattered scribbled marks suggesting tally marks or scattered debris/loneliness around him. (No dialogue.)
A blond boy in a red shirt sits on a purple couch, holding a video game controller, grinning.
Boy: HA! JUST DEFEATED THE LONELINESS GOBLINS OF ISOLATIA! MAN, PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE LATCHKEY PARENTING OBVIOUSLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ADVANCED PRO-PSYCHOLOGICAL VIDEO GAMES!
Panel 2:
A wide pull-back shot of an empty room. The same boy is now small and alone, just his blond head and shoulders barely visible behind the purple couch in the lower left corner. The rest of the room is empty and quiet. (No dialogue.)
Votey:
A rough hand-drawn black-and-white scribble-style panel. The boy sits hunched on a small stool in the corner of a room, head down, looking sad and small. The walls and floor are covered with scattered scribbled marks suggesting tally marks or scattered debris/loneliness around him. (No dialogue.)
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Panel 1: a grinning blond boy in a red shirt sits on a purple couch playing a video game, declaring, 'HA! Just defeated the Loneliness Goblins of Isolatia! Man, people who oppose latchkey parenting obviously know nothing about advanced pro-psychological video games!' Panel 2: a wide shot of the same room, now showing the boy as a tiny, lonely figure mostly hidden behind the couch in an otherwise empty, silent space, undercutting his boast and revealing his actual isolation. Votey (aftercomic): a crude black-and-white sketch of the boy hunched alone on a stool in a bare corner, head down and sad, surrounded by scattered scribbled marks.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.