2009-06-16
Original: 2009-06-16 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (header banner: DESIRE):
A man with brown hair sits at a desk in front of a large monitor. A man with red hair stands nearby.
Brown-haired man: I CAN BREAK UP WITH MY GIRLFRIEND BY TEXT MESSAGE, RIGHT?
Panel 2 (header banner: REALITY):
Same two men in the same positions.
Brown-haired man: IF YOU DON'T DO IT IN PERSON, YOU'RE A JERK.
Red-haired man: YEAH...
Panel 3 (header banner: COMPROMISE):
The red-haired man sits on a couch next to a brown-haired woman. Both are looking down at phones in their hands, sitting side by side but absorbed in texting. No dialogue.
Votey:
A sheet of paper with two handwritten, underlined notes.
Upper right: WHY?
Lower left: BRB!
A man with brown hair sits at a desk in front of a large monitor. A man with red hair stands nearby.
Brown-haired man: I CAN BREAK UP WITH MY GIRLFRIEND BY TEXT MESSAGE, RIGHT?
Panel 2 (header banner: REALITY):
Same two men in the same positions.
Brown-haired man: IF YOU DON'T DO IT IN PERSON, YOU'RE A JERK.
Red-haired man: YEAH...
Panel 3 (header banner: COMPROMISE):
The red-haired man sits on a couch next to a brown-haired woman. Both are looking down at phones in their hands, sitting side by side but absorbed in texting. No dialogue.
Votey:
A sheet of paper with two handwritten, underlined notes.
Upper right: WHY?
Lower left: BRB!
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic about breaking up over text. Panel 1, labeled DESIRE: a red-haired man asks a brown-haired man at a computer, 'I can break up with my girlfriend by text message, right?' Panel 2, labeled REALITY: the brown-haired man replies, 'If you don't do it in person, you're a jerk,' and the red-haired man says 'Yeah...' Panel 3, labeled COMPROMISE: the red-haired man and a brown-haired woman sit side by side on a couch, each staring down at their own phone, texting in silence even though they're physically together. The votey (bonus panel) shows a sheet of paper with two scrawled, underlined messages, as if exchanged by text while sitting next to each other: 'WHY?' and 'BRB!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.